Reinvention Center Conference 2010: Tradition, Innovation, and Creativity: Undergraduate Learning in the 21st Century

该奖项支持的项目是一个为期两天的会议，题为“传统、创新与创造力：面向21世纪的本科教育”。会议将于2010年11月12日和13日在弗吉尼亚州的水晶城举行。这是由重塑中心主办的第五次全国会议，重塑中心是一个独特的研究型大学教育联盟，致力于改善本科教育。再造中心位于迈阿密大学，由63个付费成员机构组成，每个机构由本科副校长或副教务长（UVP）代表。这些教育工作者组成了UVP网络，这是再造中心的核心。选举产生的董事会和执行主任与UVP网络合作，确定优先事项和活动。2010年全国会议将探讨作为研究手段和目的的创新和创造力如何改变美国研究型大学的本科教育。重点是最先进的或最近测试的学习方法，特别是那些通过跨学术领域和机构之间的新合作取得成功的方法。会议在三个广泛的教育领域讨论了这一主题：科学与技术、表演艺术和课堂内外的学习。会议议程强调涉及工程和表演艺术的项目，因为它们的务实和经验方法广泛适用于一般的本科教育。作为中心正在进行的评估工作的一部分，其新成立的评估网络也将报告其初步结果和成就。会议的具体目标包括促进创新和创造，以此作为改进本科教育的手段；探索成功的综合学习方案，特别是在科学和艺术方面；研究STEM学科、工程和艺术领域跨学科和机构间合作的典范模式；提高对课堂内外多媒体和体验式学习的相关性和潜力的认识，以创新和改善本科教育；并展示了中心评估网络开发的评估实践的改进，特别关注写作作为加强和评估STEM和其他学科学习的手段。会议将包括四个全体会议和至少20个专题会议，以最大限度地提高与会者之间的互动。通过使用来自不同领域的成功和新鲜的教育模式来说明创新、创造力和智力整合如何改善本科学习，参与者将被吸引到关于智力追求的全国性对话中。会议将产生广泛的影响，因为1)参加UVP的人具有独特的地位，可以将会议的内容适应其所在机构，2)中心将在其网站上发表其结果，3)过去的会议产生了重大影响，4)随后的UVP会议将详细讨论该计划的各个方面。

The project supported by this award is a two-day conference, "Tradition, Innovation, and Creativity: Undergraduate Education for the 21st Century." The conference will take place in Crystal City, Virginia on November 12 and 13, 2010. It is the fifth national meeting sponsored by the Reinvention Center, a unique educational consortium of research universities committed to improving undergraduate education. The Reinvention Center, housed at the University of Miami, is comprised of 63 dues-paying member institutions, each represented by its Undergraduate Vice President or Vice Provost (UVP). These educators constitute the UVP Network, which is the Reinvention Center's core. An elected Board and an executive director work with the UVP Network to determine priorities and activities. The 2010 National Conference will explore how innovation and creativity, which are both the means and ends of research, are transforming undergraduate education in American research universities. The focus is on state-of-the-art or recently tested approaches to learning, particularly those that have achieved success through new collaborations across and among academic fields and institutions. The conference takes up this theme in three broad educational areas: Science and Technology, Performing Arts, and Learning Inside and Outside the Classroom. The conference agenda emphasizes programs entailing engineering and the performing arts because their pragmatic and experiential approaches are broadly applicable to undergraduate education in general. As part of the Center's ongoing work on assessment, its newly formed Assessment Network will also report on its initial results and accomplishments. Specific conference objectives include promoting innovation and creativity as a means of improving undergraduate education; exploring successful programs of integrated learning, particularly in science and the arts; examining exemplary models of interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration in the STEM disciplines, engineering, and the arts; increasing appreciation of the relevance and potential of multimedia and experiential learning inside and outside the classroom for innovating and improving undergraduate education; and exhibiting improvements in assessment practices developed by the Center's Assessment Network, with a special focus on writing as a means of strengthening and assessing learning in STEM and other disciplines. The conference will consist of four plenary and at least 20 topical sessions structured to maximize interaction among participants. By using successful and fresh educational models from diverse fields to illustrate how innovation, creativity, and intellectual integration can improve undergraduate learning, participants will be drawn into the national conversation about intellectual pursuits. The conference will have broad impact because 1) attending UVPs are uniquely positioned to adapt the conference's content to their home institutions, 2) the Center will publish its results in Proceedings and on its website, 3) past conferences have had substantial impact, and 4) subsequent UVP meetings will take up aspects of the program in detail.