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Vanasupa, Linda; McCormick, Kathryn E.; Stefanco, Carolyn J.; Herter, Roberta J.; McDonald, Margot – Innovative Higher Education, 2012
In this article we describe the challenges of transdisciplinary teamwork involving four faculty members from dissimilar epistemological traditions in the process of developing a manuscript on the lessons learned in our teaching collaboration. Our difficulty originated in implicit mental models and assumptions that caused incongruence between our…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Teacher Collaboration, Writing for Publication, Program Descriptions
Stone, Tammy; Bollard, Kathleen; Harbor, Jonathan M. – Innovative Higher Education, 2009
Increasingly administrators are concerned with inspiring and supporting faculty members in the creation of interdisciplinary programs in response to research and funding shifts and public need. This article presents an initiative undertaken at the University of Colorado Denver, demonstrating a method for identifying and launching a set of…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, College Environment, College Faculty, Program Descriptions
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Fields, Jay E. – Innovative Higher Education, 1986
The challenge to coordinate physical education, art, and drama into a one week elderhostel project is described. The result was a creative performance by the participants their last day in the program. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Drama, Educational Innovation
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Scott, Denise C.; Weeks, Patricia A. – Innovative Higher Education, 1996
At Queensland University of Technology (Australia), a cross-disciplinary faculty development network involves 13 teaching and learning interest groups representing 25 disciplines across 3 campuses. Groups meet monthly, using peer facilitators, to identify individual and collective areas of interest, reflect critically on teaching processes and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Faculty, Cooperative Learning, Educational Strategies
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Snider, Joseph L.; Pollack-Johnson, Bruce – Innovative Higher Education, 1989
During the spring semester of 1987 a mathematician and a physicist from Oberlin College went with 21 undergraduates to London to use the resources of England as the basis for a course. The course is described, with emphasis on its experimental, experiential nature. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Science, Educational Innovation, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
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Elliott, Donald; And Others – Innovative Higher Education, 1993
The recent experience of the business school at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in overcoming structural obstacles to curriculum development is discussed. Drawing on an automobile industry model for organizational change, the school used an interdisciplinary approach to curriculum design and implementation. Characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Change Strategies, College Administration