A systems model of innovation processes in university STEM education
| Title: | A systems model of innovation processes in university STEM education |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Publication Date: | 2006 |
| Published In: | Journal of Engineering Education |
| Description: | Drawing upon understanding of innovation processes in other domains, we construct a model of the innovation system for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. The model suggests that higher educational innovation in research universities is severely disadvantaged in many regards. Paramount is the lack of a "natural" innovator who, analogous to the engineer in an industrial research and development lab, has professional training and incentives to perform a significant professional role - teaching. The model suggests a number of organizational and structural factors that must be addressed, systemically, to bolster prospects of educational improvement at research universities. Changing single factors, without attention to the interactive systems nature of STEM educational processes, is unlikely to prove effective in improving undergraduate education. |
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| Citation: | Journal of Engineering Education. 95. Issue 1. 13 - 24. ISSN 1069-4730. |
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