Addressing Faculty Development as a Vital Step in Transformational Change to Improve Engineering Technology and Technician Education

摘要

Staying current with technology and its applications has become an increasingly difficult challenge for Engineering Technology and other technician educators. Simultaneously, research is expanding what we know about how people learn. Faculty members therefore must be learners while they are teaching and learning to teach more effectively. Fortunately, The National Science Foundation and others are providing grant funding to make it possible for those with access to new knowledge and successful strategies to share information and effective practices with others through faculty development workshops. These learning opportunities are grant supported and thus are relatively inexpensive or even free of charge. Until now, there has been no good way for those providing faculty development events to notify their colleagues across the nation about these events. Likewise, faculty members have had no easy way to find out about professional development events of interest to them.