Initiatives for Systemic Educational Reform

经过多年的努力，德雷克塞尔大学已成为全国工程和科学教育重组的领先者。实验性E4课程已成为21世纪核心工程教育的国际典范。它的成功和对工程企业几乎每个部门的鼓励，促使工程学院启动了一项规模和范围前所未有的计划，以此为基础开发一门全新的课程。在生物科学方面，增强生物科学教育(EBE)项目因其在一年级和二年级让生物科学专业学生进行体验式学习和基于项目的探究的方式而获得全国认可。为了与我们理工大学的使命保持一致，在行政部门的支持下，教职员工现在准备在整个大学范围内开展更多的改革和创新。系统教育改革倡议项目旨在为这一持续进程提供下一步行动。该项目的重点是克服与全面体制改革相关的规模和范式变化问题。这一战略是在继续进行系统性课程创新的同时，扩大大学的创新能力。该战略正在使用教员团队和创造了E4和EBE成功的方法来实施。随着新教员的增加，经验丰富的教员队伍正在扩大，以产生我们现有改革努力中至关重要的新课程和新方法。与此同时，正在建立长期课程和教师发展的支持基础设施，以维持未来的努力。

Drexel University has become a national leader in restructuring engineering and science education as a result of multi-year efforts. The experimental E4 program has emerged as an international model for core engineering education in the 21st century. Its success and the encouragement of virtually every segment of the engineering enterprise, caused the College of Engineering to initiate a program of unprecedented scale and scope to develop a totally new curriculum based on this core. In the biological sciences, the Enhanced Bioscience Education (EBE) program has gained national recognition for the way it engages bioscience majors in experiential learning and project-based inquiry during their freshmen and sophomore years. In keeping with the mission of our technological University, the faculty, with support from administration, are now ready to develop additional University-wide reforms and innovations. The Initiatives for Systmic Educational Reform project is intended to provide the next steps in this continuing process. The project focuses on overcoming the problems of scale and paradigm changes which are associated with sweeping institutional reforms. The strategy is to continue curricular innovations of a systemic nature and at the same time expand the University's ability of create further innovations. The strategy is being implemented using the teams of faculty and the methodologies that created the successes of E4 and EBE. The cadre of experienced faculty is being expanded with the addition of new faculty to generate the new courses and approaches that are critically needed in our existing reform efforts. At the same time supporting infrastructures for long-term curricular and faculty development are being established to sustain the effort in the future.