Purpose and Vision

Design and build a sustainable interdisciplinary community of scholars- practioners based out of the UI college of Engineering who collaborate and support collective endeavors to improve teaching and learning practices as well as advancing the knowledge of how people learn.

Values

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Personal growth on the path of attaining technical excellence in facilitating and researching learning

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Valuing and supporting the growth of students as they move along the path towards technical excellence in their discipline 

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Bring the joy of engineering into the university classrooms and other contexts

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Challenging each other and sharing successes, failures and discoveries

Goals

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Community of more than 30 faculty and students from at least eight different academic disciplines and three institutions of higher learning collaborating in course development, classroom assessment, and educational research.

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Organize and implement a two-year faculty development program that has a set of faculty development events that produce more than 300 faculty development days involving over 70 different faculty/students.

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Facilitate the recruitment, teaming, and writing of at least 6 education-related grant submittals by multiple investigators.

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Obtain at least two grants to support the efforts started by this grant.

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Have at least 12 research papers by community members published in conference proceedings or journals.

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Create a legacy for the project by the systemic implementation of at least five processes, systems, or products that continue to help individuals to evolve teaching/learning/research practice after this grant terminates.

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Design a model for a sustainable community of scholars based on literature review, analysis of barriers and accelerators, and social science research.

 

Partial Support By:
Grant # EEC-0202293
Program Director Sue Kemnitzer
Grant # DUE-0088591
 

Scholarship Community Leadership Team
Steve Beyerlein      Don Elger      Dan Apple