CREATING ALTERNATIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR TRANSFER ENGINEERING PROGRAMS (CALSTEP)

为迁移工程项目创建替代学习策略(CalSTEP)是一个旨在加强社区大学工程项目的合作项目。该项目正在开发核心工程实验室课程，这些课程要么完全在线授课，要么面对面互动有限。这些实验室课程，以及通过之前资助的NSF项目开发的在线讲座课程，将使来自工程课程数量有限的大学的社区大学生能够完成转学所需的低级工程课程。CalSTEP还在开发翻转课堂教学的替代模式，以提高学生的成功，并增加学生学习工程课程的机会，否则，由于招生人数较低，传统教学模式无法支持这些课程。该项目还将培训工程学教师有效地使用课程，并通过一个由加州20多个社区学院工程项目组成的联盟促进课程的持续改进。该项目将导致编制一套全面的、与全系统审查的课程描述符相一致的较低级别的工程课程教材，提供进一步了解和促进越来越多关于技术在改善STEM教育方面的潜力的研究的机会，并对替代教学模式进行调查。该项目将有助于增加学生接受工程学教育的机会；增加经济/教育上处于不利地位的学生和从事工程学职业的代表人数不足的学生的人数；减少转学学生在四年制院校完成学位所花费的时间和金钱；以及增加未来工程学劳动力的多样性。

Creating Alternative Learning Strategies for Transfer Engineering Programs (CALSTEP) is a collaborative project that aims to strengthen community college engineering programs. The project is developing core engineering laboratory courses that are delivered either completely online, or with limited face-to-face interactions. These laboratory courses, together with the online lecture courses developed through a previously funded NSF project, will enable community college students from colleges with limited engineering course offerings to complete the required lower-division engineering courses needed for transfer. CALSTEP is also developing alternative models of flipped classroom instruction to improve student success and enhance student access to engineering courses that otherwise could not be supported in traditional delivery modes due to low enrollment. The project will also train engineering faculty in effectively using the curriculum, and facilitate the continued improvement of the curriculum through a consortium of over twenty community college engineering programs in California. The project will result in the development of a comprehensive set of lower-division engineering curriculum materials that are consistent with system-wide vetted course descriptors, opportunities to further understand and contribute to the growing body of research on the potential of technology in improving STEM education, and investigation of alternative models of instruction. The project will contribute to increasing student access to engineering education; increasing the number of economically/educationally disadvantaged students, and students from underrepresented groups who pursue an engineering career; reducing the time and money that transfer students spend in four-year institutions to complete their degrees; and increasing the diversity of the future engineering workforce.