Multidisciplinary Teaching

Susan Roll and Jennifer Wilking share their experience teaching a multidisipilnary course together on episode 341 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

It was really fascinating to see how students across these three disciplines had different orientations from day one to this issue of homelessness.
-Jennifer Wilking

One of the real benefits to interdisciplinary teaching is the exposure to different perspectives.
-Jennifer Wilking

Students have such a deeper understanding when they’re actually doing the research rather than just hearing about research methods.
-Jennifer Wilking

Once they have an experience and actually talk to a person who is experiencing homelessness, all of those preconceptions start to drop away; and that’s the beauty of doing research too.
-Jennifer Wilking

Resources
Student Teams Work to Alleviate Housing Insecurity

Episode 234 with Maria Andersen: A new lens to support learning outcomes

Mariah Kornbluh

Mindmap

Susan Roll and Jennifer Wilking share their experience teaching a multidisipilnary course together on episode 341 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

It was really fascinating to see how students across these three disciplines had different orientations from day one to this issue of homelessness.

-Jennifer Wilking

One of the real benefits to interdisciplinary teaching is the exposure to different perspectives.

-Jennifer Wilking

Students have such a deeper understanding when they’re actually doing the research rather than just hearing about research methods.

-Jennifer Wilking

Once they have an experience and actually talk to a person who is experiencing homelessness, all of those preconceptions start to drop away; and that’s the beauty of doing research too.

-Jennifer Wilking

Resources

Student Teams Work to Alleviate Housing Insecurity

Episode 234 with Maria Andersen: A new lens to support learning outcomes

Mariah Kornbluh

Mindmap