Initiatives for Systemic Educational Reform

系统性教育改革举措

• 批准号: 9653682
• 负责人: Nihat Bilgutay
• 金额: $ 21.94万
• 依托单位: Drexel University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-04-01 至 2000-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9653682&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Initiatives; Systemic; Educational; Reform

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.

经过多年的努力，德雷塞尔大学已成为重组工程和科学教育的全国领先者。 实验性E4项目已成为21世纪核心工程教育的国际模式。 它的成功和几乎工程企业各个部门的鼓励，促使工程学院启动了一项规模和范围前所未有的计划，以开发基于这一核心的全新课程。 在生物科学领域，强化生物科学教育（EBE）计划因其让生物科学专业学生在大一和大二期间参与体验式学习和基于项目的探究的方式而获得了全国认可。 为了与我们科技大学的使命保持一致，教师们在行政部门的支持下，现在已准备好在全校范围内进行更多的改革和创新。 系统教育改革倡议项目旨在为这一持续进程提供后续步骤。 该项目的重点是克服与全面机构改革相关的规模和范式变化问题。 该战略是继续系统性的课程创新，同时扩大大学创造进一步创新的能力。 该战略正在使用创造 E4 和 EBE 成功的教师团队和方法来实施。 随着新教师的增加，经验丰富的教师队伍正在扩大，以产生我们现有改革工作中迫切需要的新课程和方法。 与此同时，正在建立支持长期课程和师资发展的基础设施，以维持未来的努力。