Innovation DARS-X: Online Curriculum Exception System
Impact Improved curriculum exception process leverages existing data to save staff time, improve student service, and create a data resource for curriculum assessment.
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Filed under: curriculum redesign, delivery, procedure
Innovation Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies loans iPads to science teachers
Impact Engage middle and high school teachers and students in data acquisition and regional climate studies
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Innovation The Institute for Biology Education and Steenbock Library are partnering to create a biology community and learning center that will provide crucial support for bioscience students across campus.
Impact Bioscience students—especially first‐year, first‐generation, and underrepresented minority students—will have for the first time a recognizable “biology place” where they can find resources and programming to help them understand, find their place in, and take full advantage of the biological sciences community at UW–Madison.
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Filed under: structure
Innovation School of Business professor reenergizes classroom experience using technology and campus partnerships.
Impact Using new ways to deliver information outside of class changes the professor's role during class.
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Filed under: curriculum redesign, delivery
Innovation College of Engineering develops a revenue-sharing model with cross-campus participation
Impact Engineering Professional Development will be offering a new online degree option targeted at mid-career engineers who want to continue their education while also continuing to practice.
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Filed under: curriculum redesign, delivery, new revenue
Innovation DesignLab employs “smart media” in the classroom
Impact Smart media empowers instructors and students to think in new forms, work in new venues, and communicate with diverse audiences.
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Filed under: curriculum redesign, new revenue, structure
Innovation WisCEL classes redefine the learning environment
Impact By promoting spontaneous peer collaboration in unique learning environments, students develop lifelong, independent learning skills.
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Filed under: curriculum redesign, delivery
Innovation Comparative Literature and Folklore Program join forces
Impact Administratively, we will save the university money while also making better use of the energies and teamwork of faculty from two formerly distinct units.
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Filed under: curriculum redesign, structure
Innovation CALS international programs
Impact We are better equipping UW-Madison undergraduates in the sciences with the global competencies they will need to work and lead in an increasingly interdependent world.
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Filed under: curriculum redesign
Innovation Flexible physics and Flash technology
Impact Students are better prepared for small laboratory experiences.
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Filed under: curriculum redesign
Innovation New part-time master’s of social work
Impact Enrollment in the part-time master's program now exceeds 200 students, producing a new revenue stream to support many innovations for the School of Social Work.
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Filed under: curriculum redesign, delivery, new revenue
Innovation Curriculum redesign in Department of Psychology
Impact Improved educational experience for undergraduates; gives faculty more time to spend on research and grant-seeking activities; the department is better positioned to recruit and retain faculty
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Filed under: curriculum redesign
Innovation School of Medicine and Public Health updates disciplines through consolidation of departments
Impact The newly defined disciplines are better aligned with peers and better able to compete for grants and faculty. Savings and improved services were realized in administrative areas.
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Filed under: curriculum redesign, structure
