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Natasha Arthars; Lina Markauskaite; Peter Goodyear – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
Background: Constructing shared understanding of complex interdisciplinary problems is one of the most challenging aspects of interdisciplinary teamwork. How this process unfolds is under-researched, making it esoteric and difficult to scaffold. This paper aims to provide an articulated and nuanced account of what is involved in student teams'…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Games, Teamwork, Graduate Students
Marcia Joppert – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The world has experienced rapid changes, leading to pressing issues such as environmental degradation, social inequality, and resource depletion. As a transdisciplinary field, evaluation has emerged as a crucial tool in addressing these challenges and promoting systemic change. However, concerns have been raised regarding the field's capacity to…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Systems Approach, Problem Solving
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Coffield, Julie A.; Choi, Jasmine; Choi, Ikseon; Walker, Brandy B.; Walters, Katherine; Hill, Janette R.; Kim, Sejin; Rechtman, Janet E.; Carmichael, K. Paige; Pidaparti, Ramana; Welch-Devine, Meredith – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
The fast-paced advances in technology and scientific knowledge in the 21st century call for learners to possess professional skills that complement their technical skills to make meaningful contributions in communities. This article introduces a cross-disciplinary leadership training program, Graduate Scholars Leadership, Engagement, and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Leadership Training, Professional Development, Problem Solving
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Leon de Bruin; Bradley Merrick – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2024
Music education involves elements of inquiry, discovery, explicit instruction and self-driven designerly ways of thinking that can lead to mastery and expertise. COVID-19 forced lecturers and teachers within a Higher Education music conservatorium to creatively adapt delivery with students for much of 2020. This qualitative study examined…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Music Education, Graduate Students
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Charlotte A. Dodson; Stephen E. Flower; Mark Thomas – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Industrial drug discovery teams encompass scientists from multiple specialties and require participants to communicate effectively across disciplinary boundaries. In this paper, we present an undergraduate or graduate classroom simulation of this environment. Over a series of five workshops, student teams of mixed scientific backgrounds perform…
Descriptors: Drug Therapy, Pharmacy, Teamwork, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Lehtonen, Miikka J. – Design and Technology Education, 2023
Since the beginning of the 21st century, design education has been gaining momentum across disciplines as a means to equip students with skills relevant in the job market as well as to tackle wicked problems. One of the core assumptions behind integrating design education to other disciplines focuses on the need for hands-on and experiential…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Design, Thinking Skills, Cooperative Learning
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Gallagher, Hilary; Liang, Jianqiang; Torrisi-Steele, Geraldine; Ramsay, Sylvia – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
Academics at Griffith university envisioned a complementary learning and supportive relationship could be developed between Bachelor of Information Technology (BAIT) students and Master of Social Work (MSW) students. Discussions between discipline specific staff highlighted that each discipline had strengths and expertise that could assist…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Graduate Study, Graduate Students, Interpersonal Communication
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Beech, Nick; Gold, Jeff; Kershaw-Solomon, Hazel; Auty, Tricia; Down, Bruce; Goodchild, Joanne; Beech, Susan; Nisa, Shakiya – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
Integrating foresight into corporations has proved to be challenging. This account of practice reports on the introduction of futures and foresight (FF) teaching content into an executive Masters programme. The FF content was further linked to and provided a background for action learning sets. The purpose was to identify how introducing distant…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Experiential Learning, Time Perspective
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Bloomquist, Candace D.; Georges, Leah – Journal of Leadership Education, 2022
Leadership scholar-practitioners seldom need to be sold on the benefits of working together. Rather leadership educators want to know how to teach adult leadership scholar-practitioners how to work together across differences. The aim of this paper is to guide leadership development practitioners on how to nurture leadership that can address the…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Interdisciplinary Approach, Global Approach, Adult Learning
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Bowen, Cheryl Marie – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2020
This case study explores how a problem-based learning (PBL), graduate education course could be organized in ways that utilize the current knowledge of how people learn within diverse, real world community settings. Students were asked to identify an educational enterprise and a social problem within a culturally diverse, high-need community.…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Problem Based Learning, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
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Knobloch, Neil A.; Charoenmuang, Mingla; Cooperstone, Jessica L.; Patil, Bhimanagouda S. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe faculty and graduate students' motivation and learning experiences in a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary graduate course focused on the nexus of food and nutritional security, hunger, and sustainability. Design/Methodology/Approach: A one-group pre-experimental case study design was used.…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Graduate Students, Food, Hunger
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Bender, Kimberly; Wilson, Jennifer; Adelman, Ellie; DeChants, Jonah; Rutherford, Matt – Journal of Social Work Education, 2020
This study examines whether human-centered design may be a useful approach for training interdisciplinary teams to innovatively address homelessness. This case study examines the implementation of a 10-week graduate seminar in which students worked with youths experiencing homelessness to develop solutions to building social connections. The study…
Descriptors: Social Work, Instructional Design, Training, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Cai, Xiuying – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
As the global community strives for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, particularly, the first goal of 'ending poverty in all its forms everywhere', university students' learning experiences and understanding about global poverty remain comparatively unexplored. This in-depth qualitative study examines how university students in the USA…
Descriptors: Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Illiteracy, Global Approach
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O'Neill, Megan; Adams, Matthew P.; Bandelt, Matthew J.; Chester, Shawn A.; Cai, Wenbo; Nadimpalli, Siva P. V. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2019
The 21st century STEM researcher is increasingly called upon to work collaboratively on large-scale societal challenges. In this setting, disciplinary methods and methodologies may function as starting points, but they lack a focus on the metacognition and inquiry-based thinking required to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize diverse global…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Graduate Students, Student Research, STEM Education
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Spelt, Elisabeth Jacoba Hendrika; Luning, Pieternelleke Arianne; van Boekel, Martinus A. J. S.; Mulder, Martin – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
Preparing science and engineering students to work in interdisciplinary teams necessitates research on teaching and learning of interdisciplinary thinking. A multidimensional approach was taken to examine student interdisciplinary learning in a master course on food quality management. The collected 615 student experiences were analysed for the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Engineering Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Experience
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