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Drexel EduApps: Freeing Faculty for Innovative Teaching
IMSCI 10: 4TH INTERNATIONAL MULTI-CONFERENCE ON SOCIETY, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS, VOL I
01 Jan 2010
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Abstract
Too often, innovative designs for educational enhancement fail to achieve desired outcomes because they embodied the unintended consequence of built-in obsolescence. This ineffectiveness results from several issues, including a static view of learning and teaching styles, significant personnel dependence, an inability to manage changes in program size, and/or a lack of portability and adoption by the larger educational community. To counter these problems, faculty members at Drexel University are developing a system to disseminate innovative teaching (instructional, curricular, assessment, and operational) methodologies and support tools to automate manual processes. The approach is similar to Apple, Inc.'s highly successful iPhone approach. Drexel University's EduApps Portal collects, evaluates and disseminates novel approaches to educational situations. By creating a Web-based applications portal, Drexel University ensures that new innovations are critically evaluated and widely disseminated in a useable format that provides for ongoing feedback and continuous improvement. This paper outlines the EduApps approach, discusses several examples and provides a blueprint for implementation.
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- Title
- Drexel EduApps: Freeing Faculty for Innovative Teaching
- Creators
- Craig Bach - Drexel UniversityDonald Mceachron - Drexel University
- Contributors
- J V Carrasquero (Editor)M Holmqvist (Editor)D McEachron (Editor)A Tremante (Editor)F Welsch (Editor)
- Publication Details
- IMSCI 10: 4TH INTERNATIONAL MULTI-CONFERENCE ON SOCIETY, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS, VOL I
- Conference
- IMSCI 10: 4TH INTERNATIONAL MULTI-CONFERENCE ON SOCIETY, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS, 4th
- Publisher
- Int Inst Informatics & Systemics
- Number of pages
- 5
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Education; School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems
- Identifiers
- 991019170133404721
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