Collaborative Research: Engineering Faculty Engagement in Learning Through Service (EFELTS)

合作研究：工程学院通过服务参与学习（EFELTS）

• 批准号: 1022831
• 负责人: Angela Bielefeldt
• 金额: $ 17.5万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1022831&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Engineering; Faculty; Engagement

This project focuses on Learning Through Service (LTS), a pedagogical method that combines academic learning with service. Engaging investigators from five diverse institutions, the project are invoking a 4D Process (Discover, Distill, Design, Disseminate) to evaluate the impacts on faculty currently engaged in LTS efforts and to empower additional faculty to implement LTS. Major activities that are being undertaken include surveying and interviewing engaged faculty; convening a meeting of experts in LTS program/course designs, implementations, and assessments; conducting intensive faculty training workshops on LTS that lead to new LTS efforts at course and program levels; and sustaining faculty engagement via a continued dissemination of efforts. Assessment research methodologies (development and use) are being integrated throughout these activities. The project engages faculty through systemic implementation and support for LTS in engineering education. The projects expands the use of LTS in engineering education and highlight LTS as a viable research endeavor and scholarly activity. The project identifies challenges and facilitators to LTS for different faculty and institution types.

该项目的重点是通过服务学习（LTS），这是一种将学术学习与服务相结合的教学方法。该项目吸引了来自五个不同机构的研究人员，正在调用 4D 流程（发现、提炼、设计、传播）来评估对目前从事 LTS 工作的教师的影响，并授权其他教师实施 LTS。 正在进行的主要活动包括调查和采访参与的教师；召开 LTS 项目/课程设计、实施和评估专家会议；举办有关 LTS 的强化教师培训研讨会，从而在课程和项目层面开展新的 LTS 工作；通过持续传播努力来维持教师的参与。 评估研究方法（开发和使用）正在被整合到这些活动中。该项目通过系统实施和支持工程教育中的 LTS 吸引教师参与。这些项目扩大了 LTS 在工程教育中的使用，并强调 LTS 作为一项可行的研究工作和学术活动。该项目确定了不同教师和机构类型的 LTS 面临的挑战和促进因素。