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Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize home page and nominations
Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize home page and nominations
| Recipient(s) | Title |
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 Susan Ashford |
The Leadership Crisis Challenge (LCC): Forging Courage, Judgment, and IntegrityThe LCC simulation forces students to make decisions under acute time pressure and to trade off competing demands, thereby addressing the difficulty of teaching these key elements of leadership. Intangibles such as judgment, courage, and integrity are hard to meaningfully broach with traditional teaching methods. However, leaving these skills to be learned in the field has costly financial, social, and career consequences. The intensive exercise runs 24 hours and presents a realistic business crisis that poses vexing questions: What does a company “owe” the community in which it does… more Poster |
| Recipient(s) | Title |
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 Brad Orr |
Essential Scientific Computation Applied to Physics Education (ESCAPE)Introductory physics courses often obscure the elegance and simplicity of the topic by reducing it to unrealistic situations described by a forest of mathematical formulae. ESCAPE’s innovation lies in giving Physics 160 students access to software and numerical techniques used by practicing physicists. With laptop computers handling the number crunching, students can focus on analyzing conditions and building realistic simulations, starting with the trajectory of an inelastic, bouncing racquetball and culminating with a capstone project in which they thoroughly examine a physical situation… more Poster |
 Karen Markey |
BiblioBouts: A Library Research Game Professors Can Integrate Directly in Their ClassesDeveloped under a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, this open-source game teaches students research and information literacy skills. The game takes place online, so faculty do not have to set aside precious, in-class time for students to practice and develop these skills. BiblioBouts is the second library skills game created under Markey’s leadership. The first game showed the design team that game play cannot appear unrelated to students’ coursework, lest it be seen as a waste of time. Instead, it must be integrated into and enhance workflow… more Poster |
 Barry Fishman |
Using Collaboration and Communication Technologies to Transform Large Lectures into Small SeminarsLarge classes feel more like a small community of learners when students possess multiple avenues for active participation. Each of the four following technologies can stand alone, allowing faculty to experiment with discrete components as time and interest permit. Deployed in combination, these tools support a powerful set of pedagogical practices that leverage the devices students already have with them -- cell phones and laptop computers. Types of tools and specific examples: POLLING: Poll Everywhere is a web-based tool that replicates “clicker” functionality via cell phone text… more Poster |
 John Del Valle Michael Lukela Rajesh Mangrulkar Vikas Parekh |
Patient Safety Learning ProgramDespite efforts to improve patient safety over the last decade, medical errors continue to affect significant numbers of patients. Graduate medical education programs (i.e., residencies) present an excellent environment for targeting this issue. As frontline providers, residents are well positioned to analyze adverse events and to devise solutions to prevent their recurrence, while integrating best practices into their clinical work. Piloted in the internal medicine and medicine-pediatric residencies, the Patient Safety Learning Program (PSLP) pursues a three-pronged curricular… more Poster |
 Robert Bain Elizabeth Moje |
Learning and Teaching the Disciplines through Clinical Rounds (The Rounds Project)This project borrows the idea of rounds from medical and nursing training and applies it to the process of preparing secondary school history and social studies teachers. Over three semesters, teacher candidates work in a professional program that integrates discipline-specific literacy, history/social science content and high-leverage teaching practices while they “rotate” through a series of carefully scaffolded and closely supervised clinical experiences. Traditionally, would-be teachers acquire disciplinary content in LSA, encounter pedagogical theory in SOE, and struggle to… more Poster |
| Recipient(s) | Title |
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 Shaun Jackson William Lovejoy |
Experiential Cross-Disciplinary Learning: Integrated Product Development (IPD)IPD recreates the competitive environment that real businesses face every day. In 12 short weeks, interdisciplinary teams of students from the Schools of Business, Engineering, Architecture, and Art & Design develop fully functional, customer- ready products and subject them to assessment by voters in simulated markets. IPD is the only course in the country to juxtapose these requirements, and it has been repeatedly identified by Business Week magazine as one of the top design courses in the world. Each team works together on the market research, design, manufacturing, and costing of… more Poster |
 Arno K. Kumagai Rachel L. Perlman |
The Family Centered Experience Program: Patients as Teacher in Fostering Empathy and Patient-Centered CareThe Family Centered Experience (FCE) is an innovative two-year program that is part of the required curriculum at U-M’s medical school and involves using the power of patients’ stories to foster empathy and patient-centered care. In the FCE, pairs of medical students make scheduled visits over two years to the homes of volunteer patients and their families in order to listen to the volunteers’ stories about chronic illness and its care. These home visits, as well as readings, assignments, and small group discussions, serve as a foundation for the students to explore the experience of… more Poster |
 Philip Myers |
Promoting Student Inquiry and Active Learning: Animal Diversity Web (ADW) and QuaardvarkThe ADW database contains thousands of detailed descriptions of species that have been contributed by students from over 40 institutions in North America. A specially designed template allows non-experts to enter data that will be amenable to structured searches. Each section has a place for free text, along with associated keywords and data fields for quantitative summaries. Authors also attach bibliographic citations. Since 2007 Quaardvark has provided a powerful new way for students to construct queries and download ADW data to explore natural history patterns and test hypotheses.… more Poster |
 Perry Samson |
Innovations for Larger Classes: LectureTools and Online Textbooks (XamPREP)LectureTools is designed as an alternative to ‘clickers’ and provides a wider range of question types for instructors. Additionally, LectureTools allows students to pose questions during lecture, and GSIs in the room can answer their questions for them in real time. Students can also type their notes synchronized to the instructor’s slides and even draw on the slides with a Mac or PC. The tool originated from Samson’s desire to expand the use of student discussion in large lecture classes and the realization that clickers could not accommodate the kinds of questions he wished to pose,… more Poster |
 Lloyd M. Stoolman J. Matthew Velkey |
Virtual Microscopy in Life Sciences EducationThe goal… create an interactive laboratory experience while removing impediments to learning such as malfunctioning microscopes, aging slide sets, and inconsistent tissue sections. The solutions… produce high resolution digital replicas of optimal tissue sections. compile online image repositories. deploy intuitive, computer-based "viewers" that improve upon microscopes. The user experience… web-based laboratory syllabi link directly to virtual slides and, in some cases, directly to annotated structures of interest buried deep in tissue sections. computer-… more Poster |
