Lack of School Discipline Rapped
The OECD releases the strangest surveys sometimes. This report is one of those, in which it is noted that while Canadian students "have more access to computers, labs and libraries than almost anywhere on Earth," their classes "are noisy and disorderly, and nearly half complained students do nothing at all for more than five minutes at the start of every class.". More...
By Sharon Fonn. In this complex world a number of factors affect both the distribution and prevalence of disease and the effectiveness of interventions to prevent or reduce disease. These factors are social, physical, environmental and historical. It follows, then, that challenges in public health require a multidisciplinary approach. More...
Read the Declaration
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, 2018/02/13
Developed in 2012, the Declaration on Research Assessment "is a cross-disciplinary global initiative seeking to improve the ways in which scholarly research outputs are evaluated." More...
Interdisciplinary Learning in Your Classroom
It's Disney, so I reserve a certain amount of scepticism. But it reads very nicely and looks like a valuable resource for teachers. This is an online workshop about interdisciplinary learning, and includes video excerpts, transcripts, discussion forums, and descriptive vocabulary (aka 'Buzzwords'). More...
Various programmes have been developed to help scholars engage in multidisciplinary research. One of them is the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA). The aim of the programme is to build a critical mass of effective researchers to improve health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. More...
Urbanisme, météo, transports, santé sont les terrains de jeux de ce nouveau métier construit sur un tiers de géographie et deux tiers d’informatique. Plus...
En 2016-2017, les inscriptions ont notamment augmenté en sciences de la terre, en sciences humaines et sociales, en Staps, tandis qu’elles diminuaient en droit et AES. Plus...
Structures and labels are important for bringing order to confusion, providing a sense of direction and purpose. But they can lose their value as the world changes around them. In a world where interdisciplinary research is of growing importance, dividing universities by academic departments creates barriers not benefits. More...
Regardless of your discipline, there’s a good chance that at some point you will be responsible for teaching or grading writing in some shape or form. Whether they are lab reports, annotated bibliographies, or essays about the application of generally accepted accounting principles to a novel, writing assignments play a major role in many disciplines, particularly with the emergence of initiatives such as Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID). More...
A la rentrée 2018, les universités devront proposer des parcours « à la carte ». Visite de quelques universités pionnières en la matière. Plus...
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