This article addresses how "interdisciplinary courses for undergraduates (can) move from being intuitively designed to theoretically based." To be clear, I'm not sold on the idea, because an experienced educator or designer's intuition is more than just a hunch or uninformed guess. But I can see the appeal to many. The article outlines three theoretical perspectives: social constructivism and situated learning; the MUSIC model of academic motivation; and "a diversity perspective". It then applies these to course design.The main thing I took away from the article is that teachers need to employ and experience the theoretical approach (or any tool really) in their own learning before trying it out on students. Via Gabriele Bammer.
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