Workshop: Educate to Innovate - What and How?

研讨会：教育创新——什么以及如何？

• 批准号: 1241823
• 负责人: Debasish Dutta
• 金额: $ 29.18万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2015-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1241823&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Educate; Innovate; What; How

Educate to Innovate?What and How? will develop an evaluation framework for innovation training by interviewing leading innovators to learn what experiences prepared them and what training they would recommend. It addresses the questions of what are necessary skills for innovation and how should graduate students be trained in these skills; and then it proposes to use the results of the workshop to develop an instrument to be used as a rubric to describe and assess innovation training in NSF Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) graduate projects. In 2012, the IGERT program added a new thrust requiring projects to prepare graduate students for successfully working in innovation ecosystems. The project will interview highly successful innovators in a variety of STEM fields and the arts to understand how they became innovators and what can be translated to create innovation environments for preparing future innovators. A consensus workshop will follow where 50 participates will review findings and determine what skills are necessary for innovation. Using the findings from the workshop, focus groups will inform a process for determining how these skills can be taught and what pedagogical strategies should be pursued. The results of this process will be the creation of a draft assessment instrument to examine interdisciplinary STEM graduate projects that train students to be innovative and to see if they align with the findings of the workshops. The IGERT program will serve as a test environment because of its long-term focus on innovation, and in the past year its additional funding stream for Competitive Incentive Innovation funding to each new project for the purpose of underwriting innovation training activities. The instrument will provide a rubric for describing innovation training activities and for comparing activities and results between older IGERT projects and the newly funded cohort. The results of this descriptive evaluation will help inform the NSF and graduate educators about what techniques are being pursued and what produces innovation results.For the U.S. to remain a global innovation leader, it must significantly enhance the capacity and ability of individuals and organizations to innovate. This has become a high national priority. Our universities are excellent at teaching the basic sciences and technologies which are essential for innovation, and several university programs focus on entrepreneurship, which helps translate innovation into marketable realities, but there is often a gap between the basic courses and entrepreneurship training. The results of this workshop will guide university efforts to improve innovation training by concrete examples of what works and a rubric for assessing their programs.

教育创新？什么和如何？将通过采访领先的创新者，了解他们的经验和他们会推荐什么培训，为创新培训制定一个评估框架。 它解决了什么是必要的创新技能，以及研究生应该如何在这些技能的培训问题，然后它建议使用研讨会的结果，开发一种工具，作为一个量规来描述和评估创新培训在美国国家科学基金会综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）研究生项目。 2012年，IGERT计划增加了一个新的推力，要求项目为研究生在创新生态系统中成功工作做好准备。 该项目将采访各种STEM领域和艺术领域非常成功的创新者，以了解他们如何成为创新者，以及可以转化为创造创新环境，为未来的创新者做好准备。 随后将举行一个共识研讨会，50名与会者将审查调查结果，并确定创新所需的技能。 利用研讨会的结果，重点小组将为确定如何教授这些技能以及应该采取什么样的教学战略提供信息。 这一过程的结果将是创建一个评估工具草案，以检查跨学科STEM研究生项目，培养学生的创新能力，并看看他们是否与研讨会的结果保持一致。 IGERT计划将作为一个测试环境，因为它长期专注于创新，并且在过去的一年中，它为每个新项目提供了额外的竞争激励创新资金流，用于承保创新培训活动。 该工具将为描述创新培训活动以及比较IGERT老项目和新资助的群组之间的活动和结果提供一个量规。 这一描述性评估的结果将有助于通知NSF和研究生教育工作者正在追求什么技术和什么产生创新成果。美国要保持全球创新领导者的地位，就必须大大提高个人和组织的创新能力。 这已成为国家的一个高度优先事项。 我们的大学在教授对创新至关重要的基础科学和技术方面非常出色，一些大学课程侧重于创业，这有助于将创新转化为市场现实，但基础课程和创业培训之间往往存在差距。这次研讨会的结果将指导大学努力改善创新培训的具体例子是什么工作和评估他们的计划的标题。