Workshop: Educate to Innovate - What and How?

教育创新？什么和如何创新？将通过采访领先的创新者来制定创新培训的评估框架，以了解哪些经验为他们做好了准备，以及他们将推荐哪些培训。它解决了哪些是创新所必需的技能以及如何对研究生进行这些技能培训的问题；然后建议利用研讨会的结果开发一种工具，用作描述和评估NSF综合研究生教育和研究培训(IGERT)研究生项目中创新培训的标准。2012年，IGERT项目增加了一个新的推动力，要求项目为研究生成功地在创新生态系统中工作做好准备。该项目将采访各种STEM领域和艺术领域的非常成功的创新者，以了解他们是如何成为创新者的，以及可以转化为创造创新环境的东西，为未来的创新者做准备。随后将举行共识研讨会，50名参与者将审查研究结果，并确定创新所需的技能。利用研讨会的调查结果，焦点小组将为确定如何教授这些技能以及应采取哪些教学战略的过程提供信息。这一进程的结果将是制定一份评估文书草案，以审查培养学生创新能力的跨学科STEM研究生项目，并查看这些项目是否与讲习班的结果一致。IGERT计划将作为一个测试环境，因为它长期专注于创新，在过去的一年里，它为竞争激励创新提供了额外的资金流，为每个新项目提供创新资金，以支持创新培训活动。该工具将提供一个标准，用于描述创新培训活动，并比较IGERT旧项目和新资助群体之间的活动和结果。这项描述性评估的结果将帮助NSF和研究生教育工作者了解正在追求的技术以及什么能产生创新结果。美国要想保持全球创新领导者的地位，就必须显著提高个人和组织的创新能力和能力。这已成为国家的高度优先事项。我们的大学在教授对创新至关重要的基础科学和技术方面非常出色，有几个大学项目侧重于创业，这有助于将创新转化为市场现实，但基础课程和创业培训之间往往存在差距。这次研讨会的结果将通过具体的例子和评估其项目的标准来指导大学改善创新培训的努力。

Educate to Innovate?What and How? will develop an evaluation framework for innovation training by interviewing leading innovators to learn what experiences prepared them and what training they would recommend. It addresses the questions of what are necessary skills for innovation and how should graduate students be trained in these skills; and then it proposes to use the results of the workshop to develop an instrument to be used as a rubric to describe and assess innovation training in NSF Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) graduate projects. In 2012, the IGERT program added a new thrust requiring projects to prepare graduate students for successfully working in innovation ecosystems. The project will interview highly successful innovators in a variety of STEM fields and the arts to understand how they became innovators and what can be translated to create innovation environments for preparing future innovators. A consensus workshop will follow where 50 participates will review findings and determine what skills are necessary for innovation. Using the findings from the workshop, focus groups will inform a process for determining how these skills can be taught and what pedagogical strategies should be pursued. The results of this process will be the creation of a draft assessment instrument to examine interdisciplinary STEM graduate projects that train students to be innovative and to see if they align with the findings of the workshops. The IGERT program will serve as a test environment because of its long-term focus on innovation, and in the past year its additional funding stream for Competitive Incentive Innovation funding to each new project for the purpose of underwriting innovation training activities. The instrument will provide a rubric for describing innovation training activities and for comparing activities and results between older IGERT projects and the newly funded cohort. The results of this descriptive evaluation will help inform the NSF and graduate educators about what techniques are being pursued and what produces innovation results.For the U.S. to remain a global innovation leader, it must significantly enhance the capacity and ability of individuals and organizations to innovate. This has become a high national priority. Our universities are excellent at teaching the basic sciences and technologies which are essential for innovation, and several university programs focus on entrepreneurship, which helps translate innovation into marketable realities, but there is often a gap between the basic courses and entrepreneurship training. The results of this workshop will guide university efforts to improve innovation training by concrete examples of what works and a rubric for assessing their programs.