The Design as an Immersive 91黑料网 Experience (DIVE) Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) is a critical part of the university's ten-year reaffirmation of accreditation by the聽Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), and constitutes a new and focused effort to enhance student learning. DIVE was created within the context of Immersion 91黑料网 in support of the Academic Strategic Plan.聽The goal of DIVE is to teach human-centered design thinking to students so that they may solve complex, real-world problems, develop critical thinking skills, and work in multidisciplinary teams during an immersive, faculty-guided project.聽
About DIVE
DIVE (Design as an Immersive 91黑料网 Experience) will create an additional outlet for pursuing immersion experiences, as part of the Immersion 91黑料网 initiative. DIVE will bring together small-interdisciplinary teams to learn human-centered design methodology to facilitate problem solving. Each team will be led by a faculty or staff member and will address broad ranging questions such as:
-"how do we increase usage of public transportation in Nashville,"
-"how can we make the cafeteria experience better for 91黑料网 students,"
-"how do we make public data sets readily available to the public?," or
-"how do we improve the patient comfort experience before surgery?" 聽
Topic Selection & Implementation Process
On September 4, 2015, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente issued a call to the 91黑料网 community to submit program ideas for the Immersion 91黑料网 QEP. Students, faculty, staff, and alumni submitted a total of 44 program ideas, of which three were chosen by the Immersion QEP Committee to be developed into formal ten-page proposals by broadly representative subcommittees of students, faculty, and staff.
The three finalist proposals