Expanding Opportunities for Faculty Development in Educational Innovation

该项目正在全国大学发明家和创新者联盟（NCIIA）年度会议上传播有可能改变工程教育的教育创新。该轨道是由教师谁收到了工程教育创新的NSF资金提出的一系列研讨会组成。NCIIA正在广泛征求和选择讲习班建议，以确定最具创新性的教育实践。 这些努力正在影响NCIIA教育工作者社区，该社区以领导课程变革和项目开发而闻名。讲习班的目标是工程教育界的“早期采用者”，他们最有可能实施新的教学和评估方法和工具。 为了让多元化的选民参与这项工作，NCIA通过有针对性地接触工程领域代表性不足的群体来招募研讨会主持人和参与者。调查人员正在评估研讨会对与会者的影响：a）教育创新的知识，B）实施研讨会想法的意图，以及c）研讨会上提出的创新的实际实施。

The project is disseminating educational innovations that have the potential to transform engineering education in a dedicated track at the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) annual conference. The track is comprised of a series of workshops presented by faculty who have received NSF funding for educational innovations in engineering. The NCIIA is broadly soliciting and selecting workshop proposals to identify the most innovative educational practices. These efforts are reaching the NCIIA community of educators, which is known for leading curricular change and program development. The workshops target "early adopters" in the engineering education community who are most likely to implement emerging methods and tools for instruction and assessment. To engage a diverse constituency in this work, the NCIIA recruits workshop presenters and participants through focused outreach to underrepresented groups in engineering. The investigators are evaluating the impact of the workshops on the attendees: a) knowledge of educational innovations, b) intentions to implement workshop ideas, and c) actual implementation of the innovations presented at the workshops.