Important Parameters in Interdisciplinary Designing for Learning

Abstract

Learning design has many approaches which on one hand can be very instructive or on the other hand can be more of a collaborative process. This article takes the collaborative approach and look into the factors collaboration and communication from an interdisciplinary approach to learning design. It is found that two of the most important factors when designing for learning in a interdisciplinary and collaborative design approach is communication (dialogue, conversation, or negation of meaning). The article also touches upon the action learning approach as a way of thinking the learning design methodology, because it is important to use the collaborative approach as a learning process where the participants act upon their ideas and in a iterative process redesign and rethink the learning design. The article is based on experiences from several projects, where this collaborative learning design approach has been tried out, and latest in an interdisciplinary case study.

Keywords

• learning design
• dialogue
• collaboration
• action learning
• interdisciplinarity
• communication