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Learning to work across boundaries - opportunities for research and innovation Lina Markauskaite
STL Research Fest @ CPC 5 November 2015
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Interdisciplinary skilfulness
Harnessing “soft” and
“generic” skills
Understanding and creating better environments for learning...
Crossing disciplinary boundaries
• Collaboration science• Data thinking• Computational thinking
• Systems thinking• Design thinking• Grounded thinking &
responsive action
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Facing a methodological challenge of the science of learning interdisciplinary science(s)
“science begins when a body of phenomena is available which shows some coherence and
regularities,<then>
science consists in assimilating these regularities and in creating concepts which permit expressing
these regularities in a natural way,<and>
it is this method of science rather than the concepts themselves (such as energy) which should be
applied to other fields of learning.”
(Eugene Wigner, 1963)
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Design, implementation and development
Design-based research
Design-based implementation research
Design-based developmental implementation
research?
Design
ImplementationDevelopment