Jennifer Karlin

SEEDing evidence-based educational practices into economic development

SEED (System of Entrepreneurialism and Economic Development) is an evidence-based co-curricular learning environment. This paper provides an overview of the SEED process, three of the core areas of learning theory on which it is based (holistic learner development, mentoring, and authentic learning contexts), and how the learning theories are applied in the implementation of SEED.

Sub-cultures as leverage for organisational learning and lean thinking

Sub-cultures within the organisation or the enterprise (a chain of organisations) rarely receive sufficient attention considering the role they play in sustaining or changing the dominant culture of an organisation. This paper specifically considers the role of sub-cultures as it addresses one step of a project to create, validate and use experimentally an indicator that captures the level of organisational learning for multiple levels of the organisational culture without the members of the organisation repeatedly completing the instrument. This is done through revisiting two case studies and comparing the results of the previous analysis of these cases to the rating scale created for the new instrument.

Special session - come on down: Multiple pedagogical options using game show formats

Injecting a sense of play into the classroom carries many positive benefits. While game show formats in the classroom are neither new nor restricted to engineering and computer science, they are a powerful tool for bringing in that sense of play into the learning environment. Game show formats can be used to deliver new content, more deeply explore concepts in a problem-based course, discover on which points the students need more help, and review content already learned. This immersive special session will demonstrate and discuss using the game show format in three different situations: knowledge-based content with either individuals or teams; problem solving content with teams; and decision making with teams. The goal of this special session is to demonstrate the versatility of the game show format for injecting play into the classroom while supporting a wide variety of learning goals. Additionally, participants will leave the session with tools to reduce the implementation cost of using the game show format in their own classes and labs.

Special session - prepare locally to engineer globally: Embedding a global citizenship foundation into engineering curricula

Design projects that require engineering students to travel to other countries and semesters abroad have the potential to be very powerful learning experiences for those students. Unfortunately, cost and other constraints keep many students from taking advantage of such experiences and not all of those students who do travel reap the hoped-for gains. The goal of this special session is to discuss the importance of domestic preparation for global citizenry and consider options that are available to engineering departments to not only satisfy the ABET global and societal impact requirement but truly prepare students to be global citizens. This issue is particularly vital for those students who will not have a travel abroad opportunity as part of their curriculum. Aimed at faculty, department chairs, and student support personnel, this special session will address pedagogical options that can be embedded into the curriculum for human dignity, expanding mental models, and achieving complex thinking.

20: Graduate Student Mentors: Meeting the Challenges of the Ongoing Development of Graduate Student Instructors

Training and mentorlng Graduate Student Instructors (GS Instructors) at large institutions presents three challenges to instructional developers: 1) training numerous GSInstructors from multipledepartments. 2) the vastarray ofduties GS Instructors needtrainingin. and3) thecontinualsophistication ofGS Instructors. Here wedescribe howthe College ofEngineering at the University ofMichigan has met these challenges through the use ofGraduate Student Mentors (GS Mentors). GSMentors areexperienced GSInstructors whoaretrainedto mentorand advise theirpeers. U7tdiscuss how the GSMentors areselected, trained, and supervised, and how theyhavehelped to meetthe chal/enges outlinedabove.