Expanding Opportunities for Faculty Development in Educational Innovation

该项目正在全国大学发明家和创新者联盟(NCIIA)年度会议上的专用轨道上传播有可能改变工程教育的教育创新。这条赛道由一系列研讨会组成，由获得NSF资助的工程学教育创新的教职员工举办。NCIIA正在广泛征集和挑选研讨会提案，以确定最具创新性的教育实践。这些努力正在惠及NCIIA教育工作者社区，该社区以领导课程改革和项目开发而闻名。这些研讨会的目标是工程教育界的“早期采用者”，他们最有可能采用新兴的方法和工具进行指导和评估。为了让不同的支持者参与到这项工作中来，NCIIA通过向工程学中代表性不足的群体进行重点拓展，招募研讨会主持人和参与者。调查人员正在评估讲习班对与会者的影响：a)教育创新知识，b)实施讲习班想法的意图，c)讲习班提出的创新的实际实施情况。

The project is disseminating educational innovations that have the potential to transform engineering education in a dedicated track at the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) annual conference. The track is comprised of a series of workshops presented by faculty who have received NSF funding for educational innovations in engineering. The NCIIA is broadly soliciting and selecting workshop proposals to identify the most innovative educational practices. These efforts are reaching the NCIIA community of educators, which is known for leading curricular change and program development. The workshops target "early adopters" in the engineering education community who are most likely to implement emerging methods and tools for instruction and assessment. To engage a diverse constituency in this work, the NCIIA recruits workshop presenters and participants through focused outreach to underrepresented groups in engineering. The investigators are evaluating the impact of the workshops on the attendees: a) knowledge of educational innovations, b) intentions to implement workshop ideas, and c) actual implementation of the innovations presented at the workshops.