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Perspectives from Working on a Collaborative Interdisciplinary OER Project

Laura Clark Hunt, faculty at the University of Southern Mississippi, and Janet Koposko, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Braham Baldwin Agricultural College, presented at Open Ed 2021 about “A Case Study in Information Literacy: OER Interdisciplinary Project on Research as Inquiry.” The title of their presentation was “Discipline Specific Information Literacy.” This was a grant […]
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Why wouldn’t you?

I was listening to an episode of the podcast Teaching in Higher Ed. This episode had Archana McEligot. McEligot spoke about epidemiology and courses they teach. I had never considered it, but they described how epidemiology is one of the first data science and analytics disciplines. McEligot described how big data requires interdisciplinary approaches and […]
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Integrative Thinking

The asynchronous Lilly Conference session by Brad Sottile, Maggie Slattery, and Laura E. Cruz from Pennsylvania State University described a multi campus initiative to create general education courses with integrative thinking. I was immediately captured by their description of wicked problems, grand challenges, and UN Sustainability Goals and the importance of integrative thinking. They defined […]
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