Evidence Based Teaching: Teaching as Research/Scholarship 2018
Workshop Leaders: Professors John Heywood (Trinity College, Dublin) and Pears (Uppsala University and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Welcome to our FIE/ASEE co-sponsored Workshop page.
The purpose of the page is to provide a central access point to the resources associated with the workshop, and to serve as a repository for project materials for those workshop participants who elect to carry out a research project based in their own educational practice.
Workshop Structure
The workshop is divided into four thematic areas. Each session is based on a prior reading assignment as outlined below. The sessions at the FIE conference will assume a background in these readings and build upon them through discussion and presentations.
The workshop consists of the following 4 themes and associated readings (see links below).
Morning Session: 9am - 12 noon
Landscape of and priorities in higher education
- Heywood, Preface
- Trevelyn
- Pears, Landscape and Theory of Scholarly Teaching and Learning
Accountability - engineering professional values, for whom with whom.
- Grandin et al.
- Goldman
- Heywood, Chapter I
Scholarship of Teaching. Teaching as Research.
- Heywood, Chapter II
- Heywood, Chapter III
Afternoon Session: 1pm - 5pm
Researching Learning and Teaching
- Pears - Theory and Practice of Engineering Education Research
- Heywood - Chapter IV
Studies from the Field : Iron Range Engineering
Dinner
Wrap up and debrief - opportunity to pursue a project with a meeting at ASEE and the following FIE.