We plan for dissemination through partnerships in four stages:
- Initial contact through presentations, site visits, and demonstrations
- Support by identifying key personnel, providing examples of material and approaches, financing, and setting up transformation teams
- Partnerships where we help to establish or offer facilitator programs and aid in establishing institutional structures necessary for successful interdisciplinarity
- Integration where the partners become fully independent and start developing own material and approaches, educate their own staff, and can serve as examples for communication and dissemination to other institutions
These stages are similar across the different scales – for teachers who want to develop new teaching and for departments that want to develop new study programs. The pilot-evaluate-scale approach is built for effective dissemination through evidence and partnership. We will evaluate the model for change and publish a model adapted to Norwegian and European contexts. Our goal is to gradually spread practices by building a community and a culture supported by education research projects.
Local dissemination
Practices will be disseminated when integrated in new honors certificate programs in collaboration with UiO’s strategic programs. The approaches developed are well suited to integrate aspects of innovation, computational competencies, or sustainability across study programs at UiO. A session on interdisciplinary teaching and learning will be integrated in the pedagogical courses given to all university teachers by LINK.