EEP: The Teaching Challenges of Engineering Faculty: Insights from a Model Instructional Development Program

EEP：工程学院的教学挑战：教学发展模型模型的见解

• 批准号: 0211774
• 负责人: Jennifer Turns
• 金额: $ 37.5万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-07-01 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0211774&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EEP; Teaching; Challenges; Engineering; Faculty

The instructional development program of the University of Washington provides a rich context for learning about the challenges that faculty face in efforts to enhance their teaching, and how to help faculty face these challenges. This project will:1. Document the unique instruction-related concerns/questions of engineering faculty and the types of responses that fulfill these concerns.2. Document the complexities associated with designing and executing instructional development services in the context of engineering.3. Document cultural factors important for engineering instructional development.4. Share this information with others interested in supporting faculty efforts to enhance/modify their teaching (including campus level instructional developers, workshop designers, national reform groups, and even faculty themselves).We propose to take advantage of these opportunities through a combination of research and website development activities. Specifically, we propose to conduct research on successful instructional development efforts through a combination of debriefing interviews and case study observations. The results of this study will be available to engineering educators and other programs through an innovative user-centered website -the Engineering Teaching Source. The content of the website will be derived from the insights gained from the debriefing interviews and case study observations. The design of the website will emphasize multiple paths by which faculty / instructional developers can find information.Our proposed research will provide insight into the needs of faculty as they change their teaching practices and provides the engineering education community with this insight through the design and publication of the Engineering Teaching Source. This work will benefit all who are interested in helping engineering faculty address teaching challenges, including instructional developers in campus-wide centers, those who create workshops for engineering faculty, those funding and running systematic reform efforts, and facultythemselves. This work will complement the spectrum of efforts to enhance the teaching of engineering by focusing on the people most pivotal to the teaching - the faculty themselves.

华盛顿大学的教学发展项目提供了丰富的背景，让我们了解教师在努力提高教学水平时面临的挑战，以及如何帮助教师面对这些挑战。本项目将：1；记录工程学院独特的与教学相关的关注/问题，以及满足这些关注的回应类型。记录与工程环境中设计和执行教学发展服务相关的复杂性。记录对工程教学发展重要的文化因素。与其他有兴趣支持教师努力加强/修改其教学的人分享这些信息（包括校园级教学开发人员，研讨会设计师，国家改革小组，甚至教师自己）。我们建议通过研究和网站开发活动的结合来利用这些机会。具体地说，我们建议通过汇报访谈和案例研究观察相结合的方式对成功的教学发展努力进行研究。这项研究的结果将通过一个创新的以用户为中心的网站——工程教学源，提供给工程教育工作者和其他项目。网站的内容将来自从汇报访谈和案例研究观察中获得的见解。网站的设计将强调教师/教学开发人员可以找到信息的多种途径。我们提出的研究将深入了解教师在改变教学实践时的需求，并通过设计和出版《工程教学源》为工程教育界提供这种见解。这项工作将使所有对帮助工程学院应对教学挑战感兴趣的人受益，包括校园中心的教学开发人员，为工程学院创建研讨会的人，资助和运行系统改革工作的人，以及教师自己。这项工作将通过关注对教学最关键的人——教师本身，来补充提高工程教学的一系列努力。