Education in collaboration with cities: The intentions of transdisciplinary courses

Purpose<br/>In collaboration with their home cities, universities increasingly develop courses in which students investigate urban sustainability challenges. This paper aims to understand how far-reaching the collaboration with urban stakeholders in these courses is and what students are meant to learn from the transdisciplinary pedagogies.<br/>...

Interdisciplinary engineering education: A review of vision, teaching, and support

Background: Societal challenges that call for a new type of engineer suggest the need for the implementation of interdisciplinary engineering education (IEE). The aim of IEE is to train engineering students to bring together expertise from different disciplines in a single context. This review synthesizes IEE research with a focus on...

Effective lecturing behaviour in English Medium Instruction; A pilot study

Today, the expansion of English education between non-native speakers with different language backgrounds requires insight into the problems encountered in the multicultural classroom and the consequences of English-medium instruction for local students as well as students of other nationalities. As English becomes the language of communication...