Campuswide Reform Initiative for Undergraduate Education

加州大学欧文分校(UCI)提出了一项校园本科教育改革倡议，重点是培养学生21世纪所需的科学和技术素养技能。AL1学生--不仅仅是科学、数学、工程和技术(SMET)专业的学生--必须做好准备，在这个后工业化世界不断变化的生活和工作环境中取得成功，并为之做出贡献。在NSF的资助和UCI校长、本科生教育主任和其他主要教员的领导下，校园范围的改革倡议将导致(1)主要课程和课程内容的变化，特别是在数学、工程和计算机科学方面，(2)在本科课程中注入教育技术，以及(3)改变校园关于课程创新和改革的氛围。该项目将建立在UCI目前改善本科教育的努力的基础上，包括由NSF资助的几个项目，包括：NSF最近续签的加州少数群体参与联盟(CAMP)；旨在改革制造工程的南方CA制造工程教育联盟(SCCEME)；UCI新的全球可持续发展跨学科辅修，这是UCI五所学校之间的合作努力；以及由皮尤慈善信托基金资助的SMART(科学和数学连接通向教学)项目，并被NSF评为全国教师培训的典范。目前的项目将为UCI在本科教育中开发和实施更广泛的、校园范围的改革提供催化剂。具体地说，NSF的资金将用于几个校园范围的计划务虚会，创建多学科课程委员会，为教师提供小型助学金计划，为学生和教师提供教育技术培训，以及专注于有效使用教育技术的教学讨论会系列。其他具体内容将包括开发四门新课程(一门工程素养课程、为非理科学生扩展的“科学习语”课程和两门教师培训课程)、计算机科学方面新的“双重能力”辅修课程、以及新的教学技术模式(例如，超文本教科书和可从校园教室访问的多媒体图书馆)。万维网将是传播的主要媒介，将包含该项目产生的文件、材料和原型，以及与该国家科学基金会倡议支持的其他网站的链接。其他传播活动将包括在国家会议上的介绍以及为教育和专业期刊撰写的论文。项目评估将包括内部形成性评估和外部总结性评估，使用从课程注册、学生满意度调查、焦点小组和访谈收集的数据。校园本科教育改革计划将对UCI的本科教育质量产生长期影响，丰富SMET专业和非专业的科学和技术能力，更重要的是，它将确保所有这些变化发生在一个由校园范围的视角和综合规划和实施方法塑造的框架内。

The University of Calfornia, Irvine (UCI) proposes a Campuswide Reform Initiative for Undergraduate Education that focuses on developing students' scientific and technological literacy skills which are needed for the 21st century. It is essential that al1 students -- not just science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) majors-are prepared to succeed in and contribute to the changing context of life and work in this post-industria1 world. With NSF funding and leadership from UCI's Chancellor, Dean of Undergraduate Education, and other key faculty the Campuswide Reform Initiative will result in (1) major curricular and course content changes, especially in mathematics, engineering, and computer science, (2) the infusion of educational technolology throughout the undergraduate curriculum, and (3) .a change in the campus climate regarding curricular innovation and reform. This project will build on current efforts at UCI to improve undergraduate education, including several funded by NSF, including: the California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) recently renewed by NSF for five more years; the Southern CA Coalition for Education in Manufacturing Engineering (SCCEME) designed to reform manufacturing engineering; UCI's new Interdisciplinary Minor in Global Sustainability, a collaborative effort across five of UCI's schools; and Project SMART (Science and Mathematics Articulated Roads Toward Teaching), funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and cited by NSF as a national model for teacher preparation. The current project will provide the catalyst for developing and implementing more pervasive, campuswide changes in undergraduate education at UCI. Specifically, NSF funds will be used for several campuswide planning retreats, the creation of multidisciplinary curricular committees, a mini-grants program for faculty, instructional technology training for students and faculty, and a Teaching Colloquy series focused on effective uses of instructional technology. Additional curri cular components will include the development of four new courses (an engineering literacy course, an expansion of the "Idioms of Science" course for non-science students, and two teacher preparation courses), new "dual competency" minors in computer science,, and new models of instructional technology (e g, hypertext textbooks and a multimedia library accessible from campus classrooms) The World Wide Web will be the primary vehicle for dissemination and will contain documents, materials, and prototypes generated by the project, plus links to other Web sites supported by this NSF initiative. Additional dissemination activities will include presentations at national meetings and papers written for educational and professional journals. The project evaluation will consist of an Internal, formative evaluation as well as an external, summative evaluation, using data collected from course enrollments, student satisfaction surveys, focus groups, and interviews. The Campuswide Reform Initiative for Undergraduate Education will have long-term impact on the quality of undergraduate education at UCI enriching the scientific and technological competencies of both SMET majors and non-majors More importantly, it will ensure that all these changes occur within a framework that is shaped by a campuswide perspective and an integrated approach to planning and implementation.