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Added Sarah Cassady's strategic priority/project proposal to the Fall 2022 Fellows section.

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Fall 2021

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= '''Fall 2021''' Student Strategies =

== Prototype 1: Online Learning Resource for SIU Courses in Mathematics ==

* '''Problem:'''

** Through our interviews with students, we found that many are struggling in the math courses which are either required by their major or by the general education curriculum. While SIU currently offers a variety of tutoring resources for students to get help with such courses, all of the opportunities currently available are either prescheduled or by appointment. For many students with other academic or non-academic obligations, it can be difficult to access these resources and find room for them within an already full schedule.

* '''Prototyped Solution:'''

** Develop a website available to students 24/7 with student-generated resources to provide supplemental learning opportunities for students who are struggling with their math courses.

** Present content using both videos and articles as an attempt to appeal to a variety of learning styles.

** Collaborate with professors to ensure any posted content is accurate and to determine where students seem to be struggling most in order to prioritize the order of content creation.

** Compile lists of other external resources that math students have previously found to be helpful in learning the content for the course.

='''Fall 2021''' Student Strategies=

='''Fall 2019''' Student Strategies=

==Prototype 1: The Digital Humanities Studio proposed by Benjamin Bradley and Joshua Cannon ==

*Problem

==Strategy #2 - Work with University Administrators, Faculty, and Students to create a core curriculm fit for the Information Age.==

===Tactic #1 - Research, Design, and Implement classes and classrooms that foster Innovation, Creativity, and Engagement with real world problems. ===

Description: Makerspaces, clubs, research, and guest speakers are all great things that can add to the Innovative and Entrepreneurial environment on a college campus. However, the major determining factor for the quality of the education a student recieves is the core curriculum taught in every area of the university. By creating a future Design of what Southern Illinois University might look like, if I&E were the inspiration, SIU can begin to Implement changes in the classroom now. This includes two major changes to the current curriculum. #1 We need to go from teaching a tool based approach to teaching from a problem or goal based approach that directly engages students with a challenge. For example to learn about engines under the current model students must learn about all the tools, nuts, and bolts 1st before ever touching an engine. Under a problem based approach students are engaged with the challenge of fixing or building an engine from day 1 and they learn about the tools they need through trial and error. This process more directly engages students in critical thinking. The 2nd change that needs to occur in SIU's curriculm is to begin combining the Arts and Engineering. This does exist in a few areas on campus but the core curriculm doesn't address this need. All the great achievements of human civilization, such as the Pantheon in Rome, were built with Art, Design, and Engineering in total collaboration yet the Industrial model of most universities including SIU doesn't yet reflect this. Instead engineers and scientists are in one building and artists and designers in another, often never crossing eachothers' path inside a classroom. It's time to make a change.

==Strategy #3 - Join the Small Innovation Spaces on Campus Into a Large Campus Makerspace.==

===Tactic #1 - Get people thinking about the idea. ===

Description: Go around to all of the individual, design-based programs at the school. Introduce them to UIF, and talk to them about the benefits of pooling our resources as a campus into one large-scale Makerspace. Talk to program leaders, Deans, professors, and supportive alumni. Get the word out about what we're doing, and brainstorm ways to achieve it.

===Tactic #2 - Collect information about people and resources ===

Description: Make a comprehensive list of the various resources that could be together in the Makerspace. For example, our campus has a small Makerspace group, a robotics club, and a Business Incubator. This will help us decide how the space will be organized to reflect the needs of the various groups using it.

===Tactic #3 - Make plans to build the Makerspace ===

Description: This will probably be the most challenging part of the project. We will need to find a location, figure out funding, get various permissions from the university, and get actual support and permission from the university. We will most likely try to use an existing building, as there is already limited space on campus for a new building.

===Tactic #4 - Utilize the Makerspace, and let it be used by students from every field ===

Description: Once the Makerspace is built, we need people to use it! The space will have spots where programs that were using their own spaces will be able to meet, and the space will have regular events. We also plan on trying to have classes centered around innovation to take place in the Makerspace.

Sarah.k.cassady

2022 Cohort

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