Innovation Through Propagation: Determining an Engineering Education Research Agenda

通过传播创新：确定工程教育研究议程

• 批准号: 1451263
• 负责人: Mary Besterfield-Sacre
• 金额: $ 29.84万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1451263&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Innovation; Through; Propagation; Determining; Engineering

Funded by NSF's Research on Education and Learning (REAL) program, this early concept grant for exploratory research will develop a national research agenda. The ultimate goals of this research are to increase learning, diversity, and more effective use of technology, via the propagation of documented innovations throughout engineering education. The project will address four major questions: (1) what accomplishments have been realized as a result of documented innovations to date? (2) To what extent have these innovations been propagated? (3) What remains to be done? & (4) How best can future work be propagated? To address these questions the researchers will employ a number of interactive strategies involving both engineering education researchers and administrators. First, they will convene a planning committee of experts to identify individuals from engineering education who will be invited to participate in a Delphi study designed to identify key issues and needs for the next decade. Three writing teams, each addressing a critical area (learning in and out of the classroom, pipeline and diversity, and technology), will prepare white papers addressing questions (1) and (2). Versions of these papers will be presented at the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Conference. Next, a cadre of invited participants will meet in early fall 2015 for a three day workshop to address questions (3) and (4). A draft of the final report will be available for comment from the engineering and engineering education community for 30 days before the final report in submitted.

由NSF的教育与学习研究（REAL）计划资助，这项早期的探索性研究概念赠款将制定国家研究议程。 这项研究的最终目标是通过在整个工程教育中传播有记录的创新，从而提高学习，多样性和更有效的技术利用。该项目将解决四个主要问题：（1）由于迄今为止有记录的创新，已经实现了哪些成就？ （2）这些创新在多大程度上传播了？ （3）还有什么要做？ ＆（4）如何最好地传播未来的工作？为了解决这些问题，研究人员将采用许多涉及工程教育研究人员和管理人员的互动策略。首先，他们将召开一个专家计划委员会，以确定工程教育中的个人，他们将被邀请参加一项旨在确定未来十年关键问题和需求的Delphi研究。三个写作团队，每个写作团队都解决关键领域（在课堂上和外出学习，管道，多样性以及技术），将准备有关问题（1）和（2）的白皮书。这些论文的版本将在2015年美国工程教育会议上介绍。接下来，一组受邀参与者将在2015年初开会，进行为期三天的研讨会，以解决问题（3）和（4）。 最终报告的草案将在提交的最终报告之前，在工程和工程教育社区的评论30天。