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Pages 13-15

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... While meetings and conferences occasionally gather engineering educators, researchers, and innovators together physically, an online presence would allow for the field to connect intellectually without temporal or geographic restrictions. A conceptual example is offered by the Peer Reviewed Research Offering Validation of Effective and Innovative Teaching (PR2OVE-IT)
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From page 14...
... Among the possible incentives identified by various individuals were the following: Explicit attention to education research, curricular innovation, and scholarly teaching in tenure and promotion criteria, Greatly expanded opportunities for grant funding for education-focused activities at NSF and other federal agencies including the education aspect of NSF's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards, Demonstrable institutional support, such as graduate student support and other allocations of internal funds, for education research, curricular innovation and scholarly teaching, Public recognition of institutional excellence in education research and curricular innovation such as that provided by the National Research Council rankings departments in terms of technical and scientific research, and Agreement that the ABET General Criterion 6 on faculty qualifications requires faculty demonstration of continuing attention to their instructional skills (e.g., regular participation in professional development activities)
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... Workshop participants were uniformly enthusiastic about the discussions held and hopeful that the engineering community could be stimulated to further the discussion in a variety of forums, while many might assert that we know what needs to be done and it's time to get on with it. In order to be made realizable, the broad themes offered above would have to be fleshed out within the context of individual engineering disciplines and on individual campuses where engineering faculty can take ownership and advance progress to achieving Vest's vision of engineering learning environments that are "exciting, creative, adventurous, rigorous, demanding, and empowering." 15
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