Successful Adoption of Innovation in Engineering Education: Faculty Characteristics and Environmental Perceptions

工程教育创新的成功采用：教师特征和环境感知

• 批准号: 1037729
• 负责人: Kirsten Davis
• 金额: $ 14.4万
• 依托单位: Boise State University
• 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: 2011-01-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1037729&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Successful; Adoption; Innovation; Engineering; Education

This engineering education research project will investigate factors that help or hinder faculty adoption of innovations in engineering education. Specifically, the project seeks to understand relationships between faculty and their work environment in the cases of those who adopt and choose not to adopt innovations. The project will study the current culture in an academic institution to extend theories related to adoption and diffusion of innovations, change management, and attitudinal-behavioral theories to diffusion of engineering education innovations.The broader significance and importance of this project are to help better disseminate successful educational innovations by understanding the interface between faculty and their work environment. Should the project succeed at lowering barriers to adoption, the results could be transferred to other institutions of higher education.

该工程教育研究项目将调查有助于或阻碍教师在工程教育中采用创新的因素。 具体而言，在那些采用和选择不采用创新的人的情况下，该项目试图了解教师与其工作环境之间的关系。 该项目将研究学术机构中的当前文化，以扩大与创新，变革管理和态度 - 行为理论相关的理论，以扩散工程教育创新的扩散。该项目的更广泛的意义和重要性旨在通过了解技术与他们的工作环境之间的界面来更好地分散成功的教育创新。 如果该项目成功地降低了采用障碍，则可以将结果转移到其他高等教育机构。