Teaching as Innovation

Innovative teaching can be achieved in many ways—leveraging what students already do, know about, and think about; relying on student engagement, self-regulated activity, and collaborative activity; and embedding teaching discourses in the values, practices, and institutions of the domain. Teaching innovation is especially critical and appropriate in computer and information sciences: critical because of the need to enroll and graduate more students and stronger students in these areas and appropriate because these areas broadly depend upon and consist of continuous innovation. This book describes and reflects on a diverse collection of innovative teaching practices across the faculty of the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University.