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<br/><span style="font-size:small;">'''Description:'''</span>
<span style="font-size:small;">'''Makerspaces, clubs, research, and guest speakers are all great things that can add to the Innovative and Entrepreneurial environment on a college campus.''' However, th'''e 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.'''</span>
<span style="font-size:small;">'''Team Leader:'''</span>
<span style="font-size:small;">'''Dan Bach'''</span>
<span style="font-size:small;">'''Milestones:'''</span> TBD
<span style="font-size:small;">'''TBD'''</span>
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== Tactic #1 - Research, Design, and Implement classes and classrooms that foster Innovation, Creativity, and Engagement with real world problems.<br/> ==
== Tactic #2 - Module Learning Classes for Hands on Innovation Learning ==
Finished our learning class in the Fall of 2014
= Strategy #3 - <span style="font-size: x-large;">Join the Small Innovation Spaces on Campus Into a Large Campus Makerspace.</span> =
== Tactic #1 - Get people thinking about the idea.<br/> ==
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.
Team Leader:
Thomas Birch
Milestones:
- Make a list of relevant programs/people to talk to
- Schedule discussions and presentations
- Get ideas and support for this project
==Tactic #2 - Collect information about people and resources <br/> ==
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.
Team Leader:
Thomas Birch
Milestones:
- Making a comprehensive list of the resources and innovation groups on campus
==Tactic #3 - Make plans to build the Makerspace <br/> ==
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.
Team Leader:
Thomas Birch
Milestones:
- Present plan to heads of University
- Acquire funding/support
- Work with contractors to modify/build space
- Acquire materials to fill space with
==Tactic #4 - Utilize the Makerspace, and let it be used by students from every field <br/> ==
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.
Team Leader:
Thomas Birch
Milestones:
- Regular planned events at the Makerspace
- RSO's meet and use the Makerspace
- Makerspace is well-maintained
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