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2018 Conference

du 20 au 23 June 2018

Washington, DC

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Curriculum Development to Improve Student’s Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Capacity to Address Complex Environmental and Sustainability Issues

mercredi 20 juin 2018 à 09:00–16:00 EDT
SIS 300
Type of Session

Workshop

Abstract
  1. Workshop title: Curriculum Development to Improve Student’s Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Capacity to Address Complex Environmental and Sustainability Issues
  2. Length: Full-day
  3. Proposed theme and justification: One of the biggest challenges for higher education is creating effective interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary linkages to address the many “wicked problems” facing society. More specifically, higher education needs to develop the capacity of its faculty to more effectively engage students in the integration of disciplines and perspectives across diverse disciplinary and professional divides. This session will specifically engage participants in the processes, approaches, and products developed by the NSF-funded EMBeRS (Employing Model-Based Reasoning for Socio-environmental Synthesis) project for creating more effective interdisciplinary teams. Participants will leave the workshop with activities ready to implement into their curriculum and use with their students.
  1. Goals and Learning Outcomes: The goal of the workshop is to explore the EMBeRS (Employing Model-Based Reasoning for Socio-environmental Synthesis) model for creating more effective interdisciplinary teams that have a shared vision

Upon completion of the workshop, will be able to:

  1. Workshop Outline:

Part 1. Morning

Participant Introductions – Name, Institution, One expectation/goal they have for the workshop.

Facilitator (s) Introduction – Our Goals for the workshop.; Pre-survey 

Part 2. Afternoon 

  1. Workshop Leader:

Dave Gosselin

  1. Workshop Summary (200 words or less):

Complex environmental and sustainability problems require working across disciplinary and professional boundaries. Such inter- and transdisciplinary team work presents a variety of unique challenges. A key challenge is the difficulty of combining deep knowledge across diverse perspectives into a system view of the problem that successfully aligns available knowledge and expertise in synergistic ways. In this workshop, participants will engage in the processes, approaches, and products developed by the NSF-funded EMBeRS (Employing Model-Based Reasoning for Socio-environmental Synthesis) model for creating more effective interdisciplinary teams.   Participants will then engage in activities that include using iterative, consensus model-building, reflective practice, and a variety of other experiential learning approaches.  Participants will leave the workshop with activities ready to implement into their curriculum and use with their students.   

Primary Contact

David Gosselin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Presenters

David Gosselin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Co-Authors

Chair, Facilitator, Or Moderators

Discussants

Workshop Leaders

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