E-Book Dissemination of Curricular and Pedagogical Innovations in Thermodynamics

热力学课程和教学创新的电子书传播

• 批准号: 1037655
• 负责人: Susannah Howe
• 金额: $ 14.6万
• 依托单位: Smith College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-02-01 至 2015-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1037655&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Book; Dissemination; Curricular; Pedagogical; Innovations

This engineering education research project seeks to develop supplementary content for an electronic book (e-book) supplement that complements traditional textbooks in thermodynamics. The e-book will be used to better understand barriers to adoption of effective pedagogies that have been shown to increase the life-long learning skills of engineering students. To investigate adoption or non-adoption of the e-book the PI plans to qualitatively investigate factors based on faculty roles and reward structures, status hierarchies and professional norms, and structure and behavior of institutions and professional organizations.The broader significance and importance of this project are two-fold: the dissemination of innovative pedagogy via the e-book and the dissemination of factors leading to adoption or non-adoption. By incorporating socially relevant contexts for thermodynamics, the project may increase retention of under-represented students. By providing a deeper understanding of the factors that stop broad adoption of effective teaching techniques, the PI hopes to address systemic problems in higher education.

本工程教育研究计划旨在开发电子书籍（电子书）补充内容，以补充传统的热力学教科书。该电子书将用于更好地理解采用有效教学法的障碍，这些教学法已被证明可以提高工程专业学生的终身学习技能。为了调查是否采用电子书，调查委员会计划定性地调查教师角色和报酬结构、地位等级和职业规范、机构和专业组织的结构和行为等因素。这个项目更广泛的意义和重要性是双重的：通过电子书传播创新教学法，传播导致采用或不采用的因素。通过结合热力学的社会相关背景，该项目可能会增加代表性不足的学生的保留率。通过更深入地了解阻碍有效教学技术广泛采用的因素，PI希望解决高等教育中的系统性问题。