EEP: The Teaching Challenges of Engineering Faculty: Insights from a Model Instructional Development Program

华盛顿大学的教学发展计划提供了丰富的背景，让人们了解教师在努力加强教学方面面临的挑战，以及如何帮助教师应对这些挑战。本项目将：1.记录工程学教师与教学相关的独特问题，以及满足这些问题的回应类型。在工程环境中记录与设计和执行教学开发服务相关的复杂性。记录对工科教学发展重要的文化因素。与其他有兴趣支持教师改进/修改教学的人(包括校园级教学开发人员、研讨会设计师、国家改革团体，甚至教师本身)分享这些信息。我们建议通过研究和网站开发活动的结合来利用这些机会。具体地说，我们建议通过汇报访谈和案例研究观察相结合的方式，对成功的教学发展努力进行研究。这项研究的结果将通过一个创新的以用户为中心的网站--工程教学资源--向工程教育工作者和其他项目提供。该网站的内容将根据听取情况介绍、访谈和个案研究观察所获得的真知灼见。网站的设计将强调教师/教学开发人员可以通过多种途径找到信息。我们建议的研究将为教师在改变教学实践时的需求提供洞察，并通过设计和出版工程教学资源为工程教育界提供这种洞察。这项工作将使所有有兴趣帮助工程学教师解决教学挑战的人受益，包括全校中心的教学开发人员，为工程学教师创建研讨会的人，资助和运行系统改革努力的人，以及教职员工自己。这项工作将通过关注对教学最关键的人--教师本身，来补充加强工程学教学的各种努力。

The instructional development program of the University of Washington provides a rich context for learning about the challenges that faculty face in efforts to enhance their teaching, and how to help faculty face these challenges. This project will:1. Document the unique instruction-related concerns/questions of engineering faculty and the types of responses that fulfill these concerns.2. Document the complexities associated with designing and executing instructional development services in the context of engineering.3. Document cultural factors important for engineering instructional development.4. Share this information with others interested in supporting faculty efforts to enhance/modify their teaching (including campus level instructional developers, workshop designers, national reform groups, and even faculty themselves).We propose to take advantage of these opportunities through a combination of research and website development activities. Specifically, we propose to conduct research on successful instructional development efforts through a combination of debriefing interviews and case study observations. The results of this study will be available to engineering educators and other programs through an innovative user-centered website -the Engineering Teaching Source. The content of the website will be derived from the insights gained from the debriefing interviews and case study observations. The design of the website will emphasize multiple paths by which faculty / instructional developers can find information.Our proposed research will provide insight into the needs of faculty as they change their teaching practices and provides the engineering education community with this insight through the design and publication of the Engineering Teaching Source. This work will benefit all who are interested in helping engineering faculty address teaching challenges, including instructional developers in campus-wide centers, those who create workshops for engineering faculty, those funding and running systematic reform efforts, and facultythemselves. This work will complement the spectrum of efforts to enhance the teaching of engineering by focusing on the people most pivotal to the teaching - the faculty themselves.