Truscott, Fiona;
Smith, Lelanie;
(2024)
Do You Need To Be Mad To Work Here? Reflections On Leading Extremely Large-Scale Interdisciplinary Team Project Modules.
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Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Conference of SEFI.
EPFL, Lausanne: Lausanne, Switzerland..
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Abstract
There is a growing acknowledgment that across society and industry, the complexities and uncertainties of today's global challenges cannot be adequately addressed through isolated disciplinary approaches. As accreditation bodies require the addition of more contextual skills-based development into curricula, an increase in team projects, among other things, is a key way to address this. The development of these interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary competencies and skills is challenging since it is affective and connected to the state of “being” of the student. The complexities escalate when classes are scaled up and there is no pedagogical development for lecturers to facilitate these teaching engagements. The skill set required to lead interdisciplinary team project teaching is very different to that of traditional lecture or seminar-based teaching. As part of a broader project on evaluating frameworks and structures for delivering interdisciplinary teamwork at extremely large scale and understanding this modern teaching role, here we will focus on the comparison of the professional journeys of two leading practitioners of large-scale interdisciplinary team project modules. In reflecting on the similarities and differences of our contexts (global north and global south) and approaches, we identify the future direction and needs of this specialist area. This paper aims to start a sector-wide discussion of the requirements of this contemporary teaching role, and starts to outline how to better prepare and support those undertaking these roles.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Do You Need To Be Mad To Work Here? Reflections On Leading Extremely Large-Scale Interdisciplinary Team Project Modules |
| Event: | 52nd Annual Conference of SEFI |
| Location: | Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Dates: | 2 Sep 2024 - 5 Sep 2024 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.14256861 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/https://zenodo.org/records/1425686... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2024. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0. (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). The license allows you to copy, distribute, and transmit the work, as well as adapting it. However, you must attribute the work to the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work), and cannot use the work for commercial purposes without prior permission of the author. If you alter or build upon this work, you can distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) |
| Keywords: | Interdisciplinary, Extremely Large Scale, Facilitator, Educator Experience |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Engineering Science Faculty Office |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201679 |
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