Hi All, Mel invited me to join the mailing list and has asked me to introduce myself now that I have joined the list.
I am in the second year of the doctoral program in Engineering Education at Purdue University. Following my masters studies in Civil Engineering I ended up in a faculty development position at KFUPM, Saudi Arabia. There I worked for nine years on different projects related to faculty development. With my background in engineering and experience of faculty development I am now in the doctoral program of engineering education. Here I am engaged in the research on institutional development and change with particular focus on faculty development for change in engineering education. I understand that teaching open source is yet another educational innovation similar to several others which communities who are interested in an innovation are exploring to bring them into mainstream and promote them for a widespread adoption. This provides me another real context to study what issues are involved in change for the adoption of an educational innovation. I plan to stay tuned to this mailing list to learn about the stories and possibly identify some new cases that will be interesting to study from the perspective of institutional change and faculty development. I am excited to be part of this community and would like to contribute with ideas if it can help anyone in their efforts. Thanks, Junaid (Junaid Siddiqui)
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