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.

这一工程教育研究项目将调查有助于或阻碍教师采用工程教育创新的因素。具体地说，该项目试图了解在那些采用和选择不采用创新的人的情况下，教师与他们的工作环境之间的关系。该项目将研究学术机构当前的文化，将与创新的采用和传播、变革管理和态度-行为理论相关的理论扩展到工程教育创新的传播。本项目的更广泛的意义和重要性是通过了解教师和他们的工作环境之间的接口来帮助更好地传播成功的教育创新。如果该项目成功地降低了采用门槛，结果可能会被转移到其他高等教育机构。