www.tltgroup.org Engaging the Next 10% Faculty Sharing - Small Steps in the Right Direction Frugal Innovations for Student Engagement (FISE)

Introduction & Definitions        Principles   

Visions Worth Working Toward (VWWT)       Fundamental Questions   

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FISE - INTRODUCTION & DEFINITIONS
Also see Glossary

Frugal Innovations for Student Engagement (FISE)

This initiative helps people who care about their students to continue to improve teaching and learning in small steps.  We especially encourage and actively support 

• taking better advantage of available resources - old and new
• more rapid, wider collegial sharing of improvements
  
  

We discuss, develop and share FISE resources, practices, policies, and ideas for colleges, universities and individuals within them.  We encourage and enable participants to help colleagues use, improve, and share further some of the participants' own favorite under-utilized low-threshold resources.

Why is more collegial sharing important to help improve education - especially now?

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Frugal Innovations

Worthwhile, low-threshold, shareable improvements in teaching and learning.

Student Engagement

"Student Engagement" is a combination of students' commitment of their own time and energy to useful educational activities and students' attitudes toward those activities. 

Note:  No widely accepted definition yet available.  Related references, resources...

Strategy of Frugal Innovation

Take advantage of over-abundant,  under-utilized, "low-threshold" resources for improving teaching and learning with technology - in small steps.   

• Identify (or create) small, important improvements
• Use them
• Confirm, improve, or reject them
• Share them widely, easily, and effectively 
• Make a difference soon

More definitions - see Glossary...