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Ashley B. Heim; Georgia Lawrence; Riya Agarwal; Michelle K. Smith; N. G. Holmes – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
There is a growing need for more effective interdisciplinary science instruction across undergraduate degree programs. In addition to supporting students' connections between disciplinary concepts, interdisciplinary learning can develop students' critical thinking skills and allow them to evaluate scientific investigations and claims between…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Biology, Physics, Undergraduate Students
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Yiyan Wu; Agata Gapinska-Serwin; Wade Knaap; Ronald Soong; Vivienne Luk – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
University courses are often interconnected; however, the connections between these courses remain unclear to many students. This is particularly important in the field of forensic science since each stage of the investigation, from the crime scene to the courtroom, has significant implications on the outcome of a case and the individuals…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Crime, Identification, College Science
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Catherine T. Amelink; Dustin M. Grote; Matthew B. Norris; Jacob R. Grohs – Innovative Higher Education, 2024
As higher education institutions look to educate and graduate degree earners that have the skills and knowledge necessary to design, communicate, and collaborate in ways that allow for innovative solutions to complex socio-technical challenges, new approaches to educational efforts are being considered and implemented. Institutional responses have…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Skill Development, Thinking Skills, STEM Education
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Cheng, Chu-Yu; Kao, Chia-Pin; Hsu, Tse-Wei; Lin, Kuen-Yi – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
This study focused on the social context dimension to elucidate how students of different disciplinary backgrounds--Department of Childcare and Department of Design--share their learning and knowledge in a cooperative course and to evaluate the effectiveness of the integrated course operation. Design-based learning through a project activity…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Undergraduate Students, Cooperative Learning, Child Care
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Rebecca Ranucci; Celia Lofink – Journal of Education for Business, 2024
Cross-course collaborations provide a learning experience for business students enrolled in different courses to meet course-level learning objectives and common program-level objectives of developing student career readiness skills and capabilities. This research examined a cross-course collaboration that spanned two courses at different points…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Cooperative Learning
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Elif Akçali; Jade Williams; Rachel Burress; Albert Aguila; Mariana Buraglia – INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2024
Although some studies have incorporated poetry into engineering courses, no studies exist that explore the use of writing poetry about technical topics to develop creative thinking skills in undergraduate engineering education. This study explores engineering students' perceptions of incorporating poetry writing within an upper-level…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Poetry, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education
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Ruben D. Lopez-Parra; Tamara J. Moore – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2024
The design of biological systems is a multidisciplinary activity in which biomedical engineers collaborate to build novel biological systems that address society's needs. One of the most relevant skills for designing biological systems is engineering systems thinking (EST). Among the EST elements, the EST cognitive competencies are comparatively…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Thinking Skills, Design
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Poleksic, Vesna; Antic, Slobodanka; Pešikan, Ana; Dulic, Zorka; Davidovic, Vesna; Relic, Renata; Stankovic, Marko; Topisirovic, Goran – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2023
A designed segment of multidisciplinary co-teaching was used to activate a process of professional decision-making and study undergraduate students' perception of this skill development. A questionnaire was constructed to analyse students' perception of the process of decision-making and to reflect on the contribution of designed teaching to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Decision Making, Animal Husbandry, Undergraduate Students
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Clotilde Lechuga-Jimenez; María-Belén Barroso; Enrique Alastor; Juan-Carlos Tójar-Hurtado – Cogent Education, 2024
This study examines the presence of "Effective Communication" (EC) and "Teamwork/Cooperative Learning" (TW&CL) competencies in undergraduate university programmes using a blue entrepreneurship approach, within the framework of a social and sustainable economy. As seen in previous studies, these two competencies are highly…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, Skill Development, Communication Skills
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Elif Akçali; Alex Springer; Xan Burley; Chloe D. Ballin; Evelyn Colon – Journal of Dance Education, 2025
Value Stream Mapping (VSM), a lean manufacturing technique, is a process analysis approach that focuses on value and waste. This project explored the development and incorporation of a VSM-inspired tool to help dance composition students consider the value present in their choreography explicitly. The proposed Choreographic Tension Mapping (CTM)…
Descriptors: Dance, Universities, State Universities, Feedback (Response)
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Davis, Rhonda – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022
This article describes the use of mapping strategies in an interdisciplinary course using "Interdisciplinary Research: Process and Theory" (Repko & Szostak, 2021). The use of interdisciplinary mapping took place in a 300-level undergraduate course and focused on maps presented in the textbook, including the system map (and systems…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Interdisciplinary Approach, Concept Mapping, Systems Approach
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Brooks, Benjamin – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022
We are living through a very difficult moment in human history where we are having to make almost daily decisions about our health, occupations, environment, economics, and democracy, while being bombarded with disinformation, misinformation, and "alternative facts" relative to those decisions. A highly developed information literacy…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Interdisciplinary Approach, Capacity Building, Undergraduate Students
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Scott, Simon – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022
Interdisciplinarity involves the integration of insights from different disciplines, which is made possible by a number of variables that are unique to each example of integration. The challenge for an instructor introducing undergraduates to interdisciplinarity is to help them learn what is transferable and relevant beyond a singular example of…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses, Student Centered Learning
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Fan, Hua; Xie, Huajiang; Feng, Quanyuans; Bonizzoni, Edoardo; Heidari, Hadi; McEwan, Michael P.; Ghannam, Rami – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
Continuous developments in the electronics industry have led to constantly changing career roles and graduate skills requirements. Students in the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) have complained that numerous courses in electronic engineering are heavily focused on theoretical knowledge that is disconnected from…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Projects, Active Learning, Electronics
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Susan Chan; Nuha Mohammed – Current Issues in Education, 2023
This paper describes the benefits of student-run publications from the perspective of two undergraduate students. Based on their experiences, the commentary elaborates how reviewing for a student journal has contributed to their growth as writers and developed a sense of community.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Student Publications
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