Creation of a Faculty/Student Information and Instruction Technology Cluster for SME&T Education Reform

答：项目摘要一个由来自全校中小型企业与技术学院的教师组成的跨学科团队，在化学系的领导下，将利用信息和教学技术(IT)来启动和宣传哥伦比亚大学本科科学、数学、工程与技术(SME&T；T)教育的改革。教师团队将由本科生、研究生和管理人员组成一个“IT集群”，由创新者、变革推动者和意见领袖组成，他们愿意并有能力催化中小企业与技术教育接纳改革在全校的“扩散”，从而使改革能够迅速变得全面和可持续。IT集群的目标将是：(1)显著提高理科和非理科专业的科学和技术素养；(2)大学研究人员参与中小企业与技术学科的跨学科合作，为来自不同背景、兴趣和准备的本科生提供教育；(3)开发一种可推广到包括公立和私立研究型大学和学院在内的各类高等教育机构的改革模式；(4)在所有可能的层面上开发信息技术材料，作为教育提供系统的工具，该系统灵活，承认并适应不同的学生准备、技能和学习方式；(6)建立与纽约市地区的高中、与选定的小型文理学院以及与选定的历史上少数族裔和黑人学院建立伙伴关系的外联计划；(7)持续评估和评估信息技术活动，并对其进行适当的修改。

A. Project SummaryAn interdisciplinary team of faculty from SME&T Departments across the University, under the leadership of the Chemistry Department, will employ informational and instructional technologies (IT) to initiate and propagate the reform of undergraduate science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SME&T) education at Columbia. The faculty team will be joined by undergraduates, graduate students and administrators to form an "IT cluster" that will consist of innovators, change agents, and opinion leaders who are willing and capable of catalyzing the "diffusion" of the acceptance reform of SME&T education throughout the University so that reform can become comprehensive and sustainable in a rapid manner.The goals of the IT cluster will be (1) significant improvement of the scientific and technical literacy of both science and nonscience majors; (2) an interdisciplinary collaborative engagement of university research faculty in the SME&T disciplines in the education of undergraduates from diverse backgrounds, interests and preparations; (3) the development of a reform model which can be transported to a wide range of educational institutions of higher education, including public and private research universities and colleges; (4) the development of IT materials at all possible levels as tools for educational delivery systems that are flexible and that recognize and accommodate different student preparation, skills and learning styles; (6) the establishment of outreach programs which establish partnerships with high schools in the NYC area, with selected small liberal arts colleges and with selected historically minority and black colleges; (7) continual assessment and evaluation and appropriate modification of the IT activities.