WIDER: EAGER - Catalyzing Wide Scale Innovation: Creating the Conditions for Viral Transformation

该项目有可能揭示另一种模式，以实现STEM高等教育教学实践的系统性变革。它借鉴了系统理论和组织行为研究，以确定高杠杆催化干预，旨在合作，同情和负责任地破坏系统结构和思维习惯，使许多教师的教学实践陷入传统的困境。尽管有证据表明替代方法（如循证教学实践）更有效，但许多STEM教师坚持采用传统的教学方式，如讲座。该项目是对STEM教学变革的传统方法的补充，传统方法侧重于开发和传播新的材料或方法，以期通过传播和采用产生系统性的变化。作为这种方法的另一种选择，该项目试图证明高等教育机构可以有意地经历一种仁慈的、自发的、流行的变革，以转变教学和学习创新的文化。达到假定的机构“引爆点”的证据有望成为广泛传播的变革教学的早期迹象，这些证据正在被收集、分析并发布在YouTube上供公众访问。

The project has the potential to reveal an alternative model for achieving systemic change in teaching and learning practices in STEM higher education. It draws upon systems theory and organizational behavior research to identify high-leverage catalytic interventions that are designed to cooperatively, compassionately, and responsibly disrupt the systemic structure and habits of thought that have left the teaching practices of many instructors mired in tradition. Despite evidence that suggests greater effectiveness of alternatives, such as evidence-based teaching practices, many STEM instructors persist in applying traditional ways of teaching and learning such as lectures. This project is complementing the traditional approach to STEM instructional change, which focuses on developing and disseminating new materials or methods that are expected to create systemic change through diffusion and adoption. As an alternative to this approach, this project is seeking to prove that institutions of higher education can intentionally undergo a benevolent, spontaneous, epidemic change toward cultures of transformational teaching and learning innovation. Evidence of reaching the postulated institutional 'tipping point' is expected to be early signs of wide-spread transformative teaching and learning, which is being collected, analyzed, and published for public access on YouTube.