Multidisciplinary Sustainability Modules: Integrating STEM Courses

跨学科/多学科99“多学科可持续性模块：整合STEM课程”项目正在创建一个框架，将多学科项目纳入大学科学教育。 代表生物学，计算机科学，数学和物理学的教师正在共同努力开发多学科教育模块，这些模块也可供其他教师使用。 在本项目中，多学科和跨学科术语之间有明确的区别。 教师或学生不需要精通多学科方法解决问题所需的所有学科。使用这些多学科模块，学生可以研究复杂的大规模问题，例如在可持续性科学研究中遇到的问题，学生可以使用一套在线工具与来自不同学科的其他学生一起工作，交换数据，代码，报告和专业知识。 使用这些模块的STEM学生正在更好地了解解决许多复杂的世纪科学问题所需的方法。 教师指南和基于维基的网络界面为不同机构的教师提供了轻松参与多学科学习过程的机会。 项目评价的结果正在通过各种学科的会议介绍和出版物进行分享。

Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary 99The "Multidisciplinary Sustainability Modules: Integrating STEM Courses" project is creating a framework for incorporating multidisciplinary projects in college science education. Faculty representing Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics are working together to develop multidisciplinary educational modules which will be available for use by other faculty as well. For this project, a clear distinction is made between the terms multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. Faculty or students are not expected to be fluent in all the disciplines needed to solve the problem for the multidisciplinary approach.Using these multidisciplinary modules, students examine complex, large-scale problems like those encountered in the scientific study of sustainability, and the students work collectively with other students from different disciplines using a set of online tools for exchanging data, code, reports, and expertise. STEM students who use these modules are gaining a better understanding of the methods needed for solving many complex, twenty-first century science problems. An instructor's guide and the wiki-based web interface provide faculty at different institutions opportunities to easily participate in the multidisciplinary learning process. Results from the project evaluation are being shared through conference presentations and publications in a wide variety of disciplines.