WIDER: EAGER - Catalyzing Wide Scale Innovation: Creating the Conditions for Viral Transformation

更广泛：渴望 - 催化大规模创新：为病毒式转型创造条件

• 批准号: 1256226
• 负责人: Linda Vanasupa
• 金额: $ 29.42万
• 依托单位: California Polytechnic State University Foundation
• 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: 2012-09-15 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1256226&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WIDER; EAGER; Catalyzing; Wide; Scale

The project has the potential to reveal an alternative model for achieving systemic change in teaching and learning practices in STEM higher education. It draws upon systems theory and organizational behavior research to identify high-leverage catalytic interventions that are designed to cooperatively, compassionately, and responsibly disrupt the systemic structure and habits of thought that have left the teaching practices of many instructors mired in tradition. Despite evidence that suggests greater effectiveness of alternatives, such as evidence-based teaching practices, many STEM instructors persist in applying traditional ways of teaching and learning such as lectures. This project is complementing the traditional approach to STEM instructional change, which focuses on developing and disseminating new materials or methods that are expected to create systemic change through diffusion and adoption. As an alternative to this approach, this project is seeking to prove that institutions of higher education can intentionally undergo a benevolent, spontaneous, epidemic change toward cultures of transformational teaching and learning innovation. Evidence of reaching the postulated institutional 'tipping point' is expected to be early signs of wide-spread transformative teaching and learning, which is being collected, analyzed, and published for public access on YouTube.

该项目有可能揭示在STEM高等教育中实现教与学实践的系统性变革的另一种模式。它利用系统论和组织行为学研究来确定高杠杆催化干预措施，旨在合作、同情和负责任地破坏使许多教师的教学实践陷入传统泥潭的系统结构和思维习惯。尽管有证据表明替代方法更有效，如循证教学实践，但许多STEM教师坚持使用传统的教和学方法，如讲座。该项目是对STEM教学变革传统方法的补充，该方法侧重于开发和传播新材料或新方法，这些材料或方法有望通过传播和采用来产生系统性变化。作为这种方法的替代，这个项目试图证明高等教育机构可以有意识地对变革性教学和学习创新的文化进行善意的、自发的、流行的改变。达到制度“临界点”的证据预计将是广泛传播的变革性教与学的早期迹象，目前正在收集、分析并在YouTube上发布供公众访问。