A Forum on Characterizing the Impact and Difusion of Engineering Education Innovations

该项目正在支持组织和实施一个为期一天半的论坛，以考虑工程教育界对变革和转型的合理期望的重要但尚未得到充分探讨的问题，并对整个STEM教育界产生影响。该项目旨在回答以下问题：(1)导致成功创新的关键因素（人力、组织、资源等）是什么？(2)创新的短期、中期和长期成功（教育影响）的中间指标是什么？(3)从这些例子中可以得出哪些广泛的策略来追求变革性教育创新？(4)导致成功扩散的关键因素（人力、组织、资源等）是什么？(5)哪些中间指标提供了传播中短期、中期和长期成功（教育影响）的指示？(6)从这些例子中可以得出哪些广泛的策略来追求变革性教育创新的传播？25位与会者广泛代表了工程教育领域的不同个人和机构观点和支持者，包括前国家科学基金会轮值理事、工程教育家、社会科学和教育研究人员、管理人员、项目评估专家和变革管理学者。他们正在比较成功的和不太成功的教育改革及其传播（传播和使用）的例子，以及委托编写的白皮书。

The project is supporting the organization and implementation of a one and one-half day forum to consider the important, yet underexplored issue of characterizing reasonable expectations for change and transformation within the engineering education community and have implications for the STEM education community as a whole. The project is seeking to answer the following questions: (1) What were the critical (human, organizational, resource, etc.) factors that led to successful innovation? (2) What intermediate metrics provide indication of short-, mid-, and long-range success (educational impact) in innovation? (3) What broad strategies emerge from the examples by which to pursue transformative education innovations? (4) What were the critical (human, organizational, resource, etc.) factors that led to successful diffusion? (5) What intermediate metrics provide indication of short-, mid-, and long-range success (educational impact) in diffusion? (6) What broad strategies emerge from the examples by which to pursue diffusion of transformative education innovations? The twenty-five attendees are broadly representative of diverse individual and institutional perspectives and constituencies in engineering education including former NSF rotators, engineering educators, social science and education researchers, administrators, program evaluation experts, and change management scholars. They are drawing on comparisons of successful and less successful examples of transformative educational innovations and their diffusion (dissemination and use), as well as commissioned white papers.