Furthering Advances Toward Learner-Centered Education

进一步推进以学习者为中心的教育

• 批准号: 9850015
• 负责人: Michael Governanti
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Miami University Middletown
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-07-01 至 2002-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9850015&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Furthering; Advances; Toward; Learner; Centered

Miami University Middletown is in the midst of a campus-wide curricular reform initiative to create active learner-centered opportunities. To accomplish this goal, the reform initiative is providing faculty the knowledge, time, and resources to develop and test innovative learner-centered instructional strategies and to extend the most successful of these throughout the campus. Several innovations have been implemented across the campus in Phase One of this project. In Phase Two, those efforts related to the following three areas of priority needs will be extended throughout the campus: helping students to improve critical-thinking and decision-making skills through the use of inquiry-based materials, to gain and master skills in computer and communication technology, and to gain practical work experiences in their intended field that are integrated with their academic learning. The aims of Phase Two are a) to provide mechanisms for faculty, staff, and administrators to share and utilize successful reform efforts, and to mentor faculty as models of reform are expanded throughout Miami University Middletown; b) to provide technology enriched learning environments that emphasize the interdependent nature of academic studies and workplace principles; and c) to ensure that the educational processes being fostered meet the learning needs of diverse student populations. These aims are being addressed by multidisciplinary teams made up of faculty, staff, and students who are carrying out the following activities:1. Development of a Reform Resource Guide for faculty which includes successful models of learner-centered instructional strategies, assessment tools, and examples of successful reform efforts;2. Offering of minigrants competitively to faculty for application of innovative reform initiatives throughout the campus; and3. Provision of seminars and workshops for faculty, staff, and students to provide creative exchange of information with national leaders in the field of curriculum and institutional reform.

迈阿密大学米德尔敦是在一个校园范围内的课程改革倡议，以创造积极的学习者为中心的机会。为了实现这一目标，改革举措是为教师提供知识，时间和资源，以开发和测试创新的以学习者为中心的教学策略，并扩大这些最成功的整个校园。在该项目的第一阶段，校园内实施了几项创新。在第二阶段，与以下三个优先需要领域有关的努力将在整个校园推广：帮助学生通过使用基于调查的材料提高批判性思维和决策技能，获得和掌握计算机和通信技术技能，并在其预期领域获得与学术学习相结合的实际工作经验。第二阶段的目标是：a）为教师、工作人员和管理人员提供分享和利用成功的改革努力的机制，并指导教师在整个迈阿密大学米德尔敦分校推广改革模式; B）提供技术丰富的学习环境，强调学术研究和工作场所原则的相互依赖性;以及c）确保所促进的教育过程满足不同学生群体的学习需求。这些目标正在由教师，工作人员和学生组成的多学科团队进行以下活动：1。 为教师制定改革资源指南，其中包括以学习者为中心的教学策略的成功模式，评估工具和成功的改革努力的例子;2。 提供竞争性的小移民给教师，以应用整个校园的创新改革举措;以及3。 为教职员工和学生提供研讨会和讲习班，以便与课程和体制改革领域的国家领导人进行创造性的信息交流。