ECE Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes for November 12, 2013
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3. The visitor for the second half of the meeting was Geoffrey Herman (visiting professor with the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education, co-principal investigator of the NSF Wider Award). Geoffrey explained that one goal of the Wider initiative is to help insure that course contents and teaching format be jointly developed and commonly agreed upon by instructors. Another goal is to help instructors develop assessment tools, such as carefully designed multiple choice tests, to evaluate how well students have mastered the concepts of a particular course.
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