Creating a Transformational Learning Experience: Immersing Students in an Intensive Interdisciplinary Learning Environment

Enhancing Students’ Learning Experience through Interdisciplinary Research

This paper describes an approach of enriching computer science & engineering education by engaging students in an interdisciplinary research project. The research project is put forth by a join interdisciplinary research group that consists of students and faculty members from College of Computer Science & Engineering and College of Nursing. One of the goals of this interdisciplinary collaborat...

An Interdisciplinary Design Project in Second Life: Creating a Virtual Marine Science Learning Environment

Virtual environments can resolve many practical and pedagogical challenges within higher education. Economic considerations, accessibility issues, and safety concerns can all be somewhat alleviated by creating learning activities in a virtual space. Because of the removal of real-world physical limitations like gravity, durability and scope, virtual space allows for an expansion of possibilitie...

An Interdisciplinary Environment for Science Learning

In scholar curriculum, the integration of contents from different learning areas has been always a challenging issue, but with very few practical experimentations. A first attempt appears in the late 1920s under the name “core” [1]. Successively, interdisciplinary and integrated curricula have been widely associated with the progressive education movement [2]. In the last twenty years, a variet...

Students’ Epistemological Beliefs and Students’ Learning Experience In a Problem-Based Learning Environment

Nursing Students' Perspective toward Clinical Learning Environment

Introduction: The prosperity of nursing educational programs depends on the efficiency and sufficiency of clinical experiences. One of the most important factors recognized in this field is learning environment. In this study, different aspects of clinical environment have been evaluated from students' viewpoints. Methods: All interns attaining clinical experiences in the wards of pediatrics, ...