Collaborative Research: Engineering Faculty Engagement in Learning Through Service (EFELTS)

这个项目的重点是通过服务学习(LTS)，这是一种将学术学习与服务相结合的教学方法。该项目邀请了来自五个不同机构的研究人员，正在调用4D过程(发现、提取、设计、传播)来评估对目前参与LTS努力的教师的影响，并授权更多的教师实施LTS。正在进行的主要活动包括调查和采访在职教师；召开LTS计划/课程设计、实施和评估方面的专家会议；举办关于LTS的密集教师培训研讨会，从而在课程和计划层面产生新的LTS努力；以及通过继续传播努力来保持教师的参与度。正在将评估研究方法(开发和使用)纳入这些活动。该项目通过系统地实施和支持工程教育中的LTS来吸引教师。这些项目扩大了LTS在工程教育中的使用，并强调LTS是一项可行的研究努力和学术活动。该项目确定了不同教员和机构类型的LTS面临的挑战和促进者。

This project focuses on Learning Through Service (LTS), a pedagogical method that combines academic learning with service. Engaging investigators from five diverse institutions, the project are invoking a 4D Process (Discover, Distill, Design, Disseminate) to evaluate the impacts on faculty currently engaged in LTS efforts and to empower additional faculty to implement LTS. Major activities that are being undertaken include surveying and interviewing engaged faculty; convening a meeting of experts in LTS program/course designs, implementations, and assessments; conducting intensive faculty training workshops on LTS that lead to new LTS efforts at course and program levels; and sustaining faculty engagement via a continued dissemination of efforts. Assessment research methodologies (development and use) are being integrated throughout these activities. The project engages faculty through systemic implementation and support for LTS in engineering education. The projects expands the use of LTS in engineering education and highlight LTS as a viable research endeavor and scholarly activity. The project identifies challenges and facilitators to LTS for different faculty and institution types.