Embedding interdisciplinary group projects

Broad Vision’ is an innovative platform for art / science collaboration providing a model for interdisciplinary learning, teaching and research. Broad Vision is grounded in the theory of the emergent, co-created curriculum. In this model students become teachers working in partnership with academics on a range of emergent student-led interdisciplinary art/science research projects. These projects evolve from a series of creative conversations providing an opportunity for collaborative sharing of disciplinary knowledge. This presentation will explore the value and challenges of emergent, co-created curriculum as a pedagogic tool for interdisciplinary learning and will discuss how this model can be adapted to other interdisciplinary STEM contexts.

Prof. Mark Clements is the Director of Education/Chair in Science Education within the College of Science.  He is responsible for providing strategic leadership in the enhancement of student learning opportunities as well as supporting teaching innovation within the College. Mark is a biologist by background and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.  He is interested in innovative in learning and teaching and has contributed to a number of large-scale projects on assessment and feedback, mobile learning and interdisciplinary art/science collaboration at the University of Westminster. In 2015 he was awarded the Royal Society of Biology ‘Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the year award’.