A Forum on Characterizing the Impact and Difusion of Engineering Education Innovations

该项目正在支持组织和实施一个为期一天半的论坛，以考虑重要的，但未充分探讨的问题，即对工程教育界的变革和转型的合理期望，并对整个STEM教育界产生影响。 该项目试图回答以下问题：（1）关键因素是什么（人力、组织、资源等）哪些因素导致了成功的创新？(2)哪些中间指标可以表明创新的短期、中期和长期成功（教育影响）？(3)从实施变革性教育创新的例子中可以得出哪些广泛的战略？(4)关键因素是什么（人力、组织、资源等）成功传播的因素有哪些？ (5)哪些中间指标提供了传播中短期、中期和长期成功（教育影响）的指标？(6)从这些例子中可以得出哪些广泛的战略来推广变革性的教育创新？25名与会者广泛代表了不同的个人和机构的观点和工程教育的选区，包括前NSF旋转器，工程教育工作者，社会科学和教育研究人员，管理人员，计划评估专家和变革管理学者。它们借鉴了成功和不太成功的变革性教育创新范例及其传播（传播和使用）的比较，以及委托编写的白色文件。

The project is supporting the organization and implementation of a one and one-half day forum to consider the important, yet underexplored issue of characterizing reasonable expectations for change and transformation within the engineering education community and have implications for the STEM education community as a whole. The project is seeking to answer the following questions: (1) What were the critical (human, organizational, resource, etc.) factors that led to successful innovation? (2) What intermediate metrics provide indication of short-, mid-, and long-range success (educational impact) in innovation? (3) What broad strategies emerge from the examples by which to pursue transformative education innovations? (4) What were the critical (human, organizational, resource, etc.) factors that led to successful diffusion? (5) What intermediate metrics provide indication of short-, mid-, and long-range success (educational impact) in diffusion? (6) What broad strategies emerge from the examples by which to pursue diffusion of transformative education innovations? The twenty-five attendees are broadly representative of diverse individual and institutional perspectives and constituencies in engineering education including former NSF rotators, engineering educators, social science and education researchers, administrators, program evaluation experts, and change management scholars. They are drawing on comparisons of successful and less successful examples of transformative educational innovations and their diffusion (dissemination and use), as well as commissioned white papers.