I-Corps L: Scaling the University Innovation Fellows Program to Catalyze Student Engagement and Change in Higher Education

通过美国国家科学基金会创新团队学习计划(i-Corps L)，该项目将开发方法，以扩大斯坦福大学大学创新研究员计划的规模和影响。在高等教育中，人们普遍感兴趣的是如何为学生提供解决21世纪复杂问题所需的知识、技能和态度。大学创新研究员计划准备并授权大学生在他们的学校做出持久的改变，以解决这个问题。通过UIF，学生领袖与教职员工和管理人员合作，促进和嵌入创新、创业和设计思维，以增强所有学生的教育体验。虽然对于哪些战略和活动在高等教育中将是有效的，没有单一的处方，但每个机构都可以在了解最佳做法、关于哪些在类似机构奏效、哪些在类似机构中没有奏效的信息以及创新思维的基础上制定适合具体情况的战略。大学创新研究员(UIF)计划为教师提供了一种方式，可以激励选定的学生与他们一起扩大校园内的创新和创业生态系统。该项目将在线体验培训与硅谷的面对面聚会结合起来。在培训中，大学生评估所在学校的学习机会和资源格局，并设计战略计划，通过利用体验式学习技术来改造和丰富这种格局。成功完成培训(并成为研究员)的学生将受到激励，并准备与教师一起工作，成为变革的推动者。该计划将通过网络研讨会和网络工具为研究员提供全年支持，使学生能够在各机构之间分享战略。

Through the NSF Innovation Corps for Learning Program (I-Corps L), this project will develop ways to increase the scale and impact of University Innovation Fellows (UIF) program at Stanford University. In higher education, there is widespread interest in developing ways to provide students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes that they need to solve complex problems of the 21st century. The University Innovation Fellows program prepares and empowers university students to make lasting changes at their schools to address this issue. Through UIF, student leaders collaborate with faculty and administrators to promote and embed innovation, entrepreneurship and design thinking to enhance the educational experience of all students. While there is no single prescription for which strategies and activities will be effective in higher education, each institution can develop context-appropriate strategies based on understanding best practices, information about what has worked and not worked in similar institutions, and innovative thinking. The University Innovation Fellows (UIF) program offers faculty a way to activate selected students to work alongside them in expanding the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on campus. The program combines online experiential training with in-person gatherings in Silicon Valley. In the training, university students evaluate the landscape of learning opportunities and resources at their schools, and design a strategic plan to transform and enrich that landscape, by leveraging experiential learning techniques. Students who successfully complete the training (and become Fellows) are motivated and prepared to work alongside faculty as change agents. This program will provide year-round support for the Fellows via webinars and networking tools that allow students to share strategies across institutions.