What we aim to develop
We will develop new interdisciplinary study programs such as a new flagship honours master program focusing on interdisciplinary facilitation and leadership, new honours certificate programs, and extend the computational science program.
We will adapt, support, and develop interdisciplinary courses and course components in, for instance, innovation, sustainability, computing and data science, energy, and climate.
We will develop interdisciplinary sessions and shorter projects that can be integrated in many different study programs or courses such as innovation sessions, interdisciplinary writing sessions, or interdisciplinary computational essay projects. These developments will be piloted on honours students before being rolled out to the main student population.
Three scales
These three scales open for broad coverage – we will reach many programs and students at the three faculties.
Principles of innovation
Evidence-based approaches: INTED’s development activities will include both general principles of teaching, learning, and program design, as well as principles for interdisciplinary learning. All development and teaching supported by the center will be based on general evidence-based approaches that focus on student learning and incorporate, for instance, active learning principles.
Principles of interdisciplinary integration: Our activities will be designed to support interdisciplinary competence through the integration of disciplinary knowledge. We will therefore develop different approaches and evaluate them through education research projects. We will start from established principles from research on interdisciplinary education. These principles will be integrated in educational designs, courses, and facilitator training programs.
Supporting interdisciplinary integration: We will develop, pilot, and evaluate several approaches to help students learn to integrate insights across disciplines. This will be achieved through problem-based and project-based learning in interdisciplinary groups, as well as by emphasizing writing for interdisciplinary understanding. This will, for example, be done by having regular sessions where teams of teachers discuss integration with students or having students write reflection notes on how different disciplines are affected by the integration.