Addressing complex socio-ecological challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss, requires collaborative co-creation and application of knowledge that bridges disciplines diverse research communities. New models training are needed emphasize these competencies inclusive students underrepresented groups in academia. This article presents learnings a 2-year pilot project at the University...

The teaching of professional disposition within the IT curriculum has traditionally involved the use of work-integrated learning, cooperative education and careers counselling. Whilst programmes employing these techniques can often present valuable and authentic learning opportunities to students, their coordination can place limitations on their overall scalability. Furthermore, the difficulti...

Software is neither material nor immaterial but durable, entrenched and scaffolded. In this article we suggest that services and software should be understood through the diverse forms of durability and temporality they take. We borrow concepts from evolution and development, but with a critical eye towards the diagnosis of value(s) and the need for constant maintenance. We look at examples fro...

The efficiency of many cellular processes relies on the defined interaction among different proteins within the same metabolic or signaling pathway. Consequently, a spatial colocalization of functionally interacting proteins has frequently emerged during evolution. This concept has been adapted within the synthetic biology community for the purpose of creating artificial scaffolds. A recent adv...

There has been much interest in using software tools to scaffold learners in complex tasks, that is, to provide supports that enable students to deal with more complex content and skill demands than they could otherwise handle. Many different approaches to scaffolding techniques have been presented in a broad range of software tools. I argue that two complementary mechanisms can explain how a d...