Collaborative Research: Inspiring Innovation and Creativity through Physical Simulations and Moving Analogies

该奖项为与Venture Well Open Conference联合举办的教师发展研讨会提供资金，该研讨会旨在促进和支持工程教育中的创新和创业精神。参与者将学习开发和使用物理模拟和移动类比，以帮助学生在课堂上学习创新和创业技能和概念。由于创业井会议吸引了来自不同院校类型的广泛教师和学生，因此研讨会将具有广泛影响工程教育实践的强大潜力。讲习班为预期的40至60名参与者提供了两个轨道，一个轨道为那些对教学法不熟悉的人提供，另一个轨道为那些对教学法有经验的人提供。这个项目有可能扩大和提高学生对创新和创业概念的学习，并吸引教授这些概念的教师，使他们能够探索和实施有效的教学实践。研讨会之后的活动旨在通过一系列虚拟会议建立一个实践社区，并提供一种机制，以维持和扩大在工程创新和创业背景下从事以证据为基础的教育实践的开发和实施的参与者网络。

This award provides funding for a faculty development workshop to be held in conjunction with the Venture Well Open Conference, which promotes and supports innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering education. Participants will learn to develop and use physical simulations and moving analogies to help students learn innovation and entrepreneurship skills and concepts in the classroom. Since the Venture Well Conference attracts a wide group of faculty and students from varied institutional types, the workshop will have strong potential to affect engineering education practice broadly.The workshop offers two tracks for the 40 to 60 participants anticipated, one track for those who are new to the pedagogy and one track for those who are experienced with it. This project has the potential to broaden and improve student learning of innovation and entrepreneurship concepts as well as to engage faculty who teach these concepts so they can explore and implement effective teaching practices. The activities following the workshop aim to build a community of practice through a series of virtual sessions and to provide a mechanism to sustain and expand the network of participants engaged in the development and implementation of evidence-based educational practices in the context of engineering innovation and entrepreneurship.