Collaborative Research: An Innovative Instructional Strategy for Widespread Dissemination of Electric Energy Systems Curriculum as a Model in STEM Education

协作研究：广泛传播电能系统课程的创新教学策略，作为 STEM 教育的典范

• 批准号: 0942168
• 负责人: Ned Mohan
• 金额: $ 17.5万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0942168&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Innovative; Instructional; Strategy

Engineering - Electrical (55) The project, a collaboration effort between the University of Minnesota and Northern Arizona University, is developing a forward-looking easily implemented curriculum in electric energy systems. To accomplish this, the investigators are developing and assessing a learner-centered, web-enabled strategy that allows students to learn content online and work face-to-face with other students and faculty on real-world energy related problems that foster critical thinking through active engagement. They also are developing faculty expertise through sustainable online curricular content and connections with resource faculty to support implementation in smaller programs with limited faculty resources. The project builds upon prior work funded by NSF and other agencies that has successfully revised the curricular content of power engineering courses in nearly 100 schools nationwide. To sustain and expand this success, the current project is focusing on innovative pedagogy and the need for faculty development. The evaluation effort, under the leadership of an experienced evaluator, is using indirect assessments (e. g., student surveys and faculty interviews), direct assessment of student products using rubrics, and observation of class activities. The project team is disseminating their material and pedagogical approach through a website repository, through regularly scheduled Internet-based video conferences between new and resource faculty, through a series of on-going faculty workshops funded by ONR, through a workshop for engineering deans to promote the approach as a model for other areas, and through papers and presentation. Broader impacts include extensive faculty development efforts, wide dissemination of their material and methods, and their effort to promote the approach as a model for curriculum reform in other areas.

工程-电气(55)该项目是明尼苏达大学和北亚利桑那大学的合作项目，正在开发一个具有前瞻性的、易于实施的电力系统课程。为了实现这一目标，调查人员正在开发和评估一种以学习者为中心的网络策略，允许学生在线学习内容，并与其他学生和教职员工面对面地解决与能源相关的现实问题，通过积极参与培养批判性思维。他们还通过可持续的在线课程内容和与资源教师的联系来发展教师专业知识，以支持在教师资源有限的较小项目中的实施。该项目建立在由NSF和其他机构资助的先前工作的基础上，该工作已经成功地修订了全国近100所学校的电力工程课程的课程内容。为了维持和扩大这一成功，目前的项目重点是创新的教育学和教师发展的需要。在一位经验丰富的评估师的领导下，评估工作使用间接评估(例如，学生调查和教师访谈)，使用类比对学生产品进行直接评估，以及观察课堂活动。项目组正在通过网站储存库、定期安排的新教师和新教师之间基于互联网的视频会议、由ONR资助的一系列正在进行的教师讲习班、为工程学院长举办的讲习班来宣传他们的材料和教学方法，并通过论文和演示文稿来宣传这种方法。更广泛的影响包括广泛的教师发展努力，他们的材料和方法的广泛传播，以及他们努力推动这种方法作为其他领域课程改革的典范。