Title
I-Corps™ for Learning: Sustaining and scaling STEM education innovations for impact
Abstract
Currently there is a lot of emphasis on engineering education research and innovation. In 2014 NSF funded a pilot implementation of the NSF Innovation Corps for Learning (I-Corps™ L) and additional cohorts have been conducted and are planned. The 7-week I-Corps™ L program uses established strategies for start-ups to scale up and move teaching and learning innovations into broad practice. Participating teams go through a hypothesis-testing, scientific method of discovery to gather important insights and identify issues associated with their projects. Unfortunately, the reach of the program is limited as a maximum of 24 teams can participate in each course offering. This special session provides an opportunity for a broad cross-section of researchers and educators to gain exposure to the Lean Start Up approach and its applicability to STEM education ecosystem. The focus of the session is to introduce the core features of the Lean Start Up process: search for a sustainable and scalable model using the Business Model Canvas, Customer Discovery, and Agile Engineering (i.e., iterate and increment towards an appropriate `product').
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/FIE.2016.7757391
2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Innovation,Research Impact,Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship,Start up,Engineering management,Engineering education,Knowledge management,Engineering education research,Agile software development,Business Model Canvas,Engineering,Scalability,Scientific method
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-1791-1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
rocio c chavela guerra111.98
Karl A. Smith24410.73