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AAC&U Integrative Learning Conference
The American Association of Colleges & Universities' Network for
Academic Renewal Conference: "Integrative Learning: Creating Opportunities
to Connect" met at the Denver Mariott City Center October 20-22,
2005. The Association for Integrative Studies was one of five academic
partners for the conference which explored how educators can foster students'
abilities to integrate learning across disciplines, over time, and between
knowledge and practice. From this page you can also link to the AAC&U
home site.
American Association for the Advancement
of Science
AAAS (pronounced "Triple-A-S") is a nonprofit professional society dedicated to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence across all disciplines, and to the public's understanding of science and technology. AAAS is among the oldest societies in America, having been founded in Philadelphia in 1848. This Website provides links to the full text of the journal Science, as well as a hypertext list of affiliated organizations.
American Studies Crossroads Project in the Humanities
The American Studies Crossroads Project is an international networking and curriculum innovation project. It serves as a center of information on the web for individuals researching issues in American Studies. The Crossroads Project is host to pedagogical, scholarly, and institutional information for the international American Studies, along with full information about the American Studies Association. In addition, the Crossroads Project also contains workbooks, videos, and tapes intended to assist teachers and students in making use of technology and in promoting international collaboration in the study of American History and Culture.
ASIANetwork is a consortium of some 150 North American colleges striving to strengthen the role of Asian Studies within the framework of liberal arts and interdisciplinary education to help prepare a new generation of undergraduates for a world in which Asian societies are playing more and more prominent roles.
Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs
The Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs (AGLSP) is an international
organization of over 125 institutional members that share a common interest
in graduate-level liberal education primarily serving adult, part-time
students. The AGLSP, founded in 1975, represents a broad selection of
American Higher education -- from small liberal arts colleges to large,
research-oriented universities in the public and private sectors. The
member list is extensive and links you directly to a long list of institutions
(and their websites) with masters in liberal studies programs.
Association of General Liberal
Studies (AGLS)
AGLS is the only national organization dedicated solely to the advancement
of that portion of curriculum known as general education, including its
relationship to liberal studies. Composed of faculty and administrators
from a wide variety of disciplines and institutions in higher education,
AGLS is a group of friendly people who believe in the positive impact
that an effective general education/liberal studies program can have
on our students' personal and professional lives. The 2007 AGLS Conference
will be October 18-20, 2007, in Portland, Maine.
Explorations
in Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning:A Collection of Course Portfolios
Deborah Vess of Georgia College & State University has developed online course portfolios as part of a research project undertaken as a Carnegie Scholar. The portfolios examine the impact on student learning of various ways of structuring interdisciplinary courses, of collaborative and active learning, and of global and cross-cultural approaches. The author also examines student understanding of interdisciplinarity in the context of course structure and discusses the aspects of interdisciplinary courses that seem to most affect and/or promote integrative learning.
The Council of Environmental Deans and Directors
The Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD) of the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) has announced a new online resource: Interdisciplinary Hiring, Tenure and Promotion: Guidance for Individuals and Institutions. “Guidance” presents the first comprehensive approach that deals with the entire pre- and post-tenure experience. It addresses issues faced by both faculty and research scientists, raising points for consideration and providing recommendations with examples. The resource is designed to help guide individuals, as well as institutions, in fostering and promoting interdisciplinary scholars throughout their career.
General and Interdisciplinary Scholarly Societies
The University of Waterloo Electronic Library Scholarly Societies Project has been created to facilitate access to information about scholarly societies across the world. Societies are listed alphabetically and by subject area. A set of essays show how societies began as meeting sponsors and publishers then took on bibliographic work, interacted with commercial publishers and now have begun to tackle the current crisis in scholarly publishing. Suggestions are provided for creating an effective society website.
The Hastings Center is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit interdisciplinary bioethics research institute founded in 1969 to explore fundamental and emerging questions in health care, biotechnology, and the environment.
The Hodges' Health Career Model
The Hodges' Health Career Model is based on a descriptive model of the structure of nursing curriculum. The website aims to use the model to bring together health and social care, informatics, practitioners, patients, their families, and their care-givers. The developers envision the model being used by multidisciplinary health care teams, faculty, patients, advocates and policy makers. The website shows the relations of subject domains, and provides multiple related links.
Holistic
Education Network of Tasmania, Australia
While its definition of "transdisciplinary" may strike many
AIS members as close to what they mean by "interdisciplinary," this
site sponsored by the Holistic Education Network of Tasmania, Australia
has useful links to European as well as Australian, Canadian, and U.S.
Web sites. Take a look in particular at the "Charter of Transdisciplinarity" from
the First World Congress of Transdisciplinarity for its vision of a "transdisciplinary" world.
Institute for Advanced Technology
IATH is at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Its goal is to explore and expand the potential of information technology as a tool for humanities research. To that end, it provides consulting, technical support, applications programming, and networked publishing facilities. It also cultivates partnerships and participates in humanities computing initiatives with libraries, publishers, information technology companies, scholarly organizations, and others interested in the intersection of computers and cultural heritage. This vigorous Web site provides some state of the art thinking about hypertext, as well as advanced imaging software programs and excellent links within UV and beyond..
Interdisciplinary Research Centers
This site links to a Hybrid Vigor final report to the National Science Foundation on interdisciplinary research centers: "A Multi-Method Analysis of the Social and Technical Conditions for Interdisciplinary Collaborations" by Diana Rhoten, principal investigator, September 2003.
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship
The National Science Foundation's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program educates U.S. Ph.D. scientists, engineers, and educators with the interdisciplinary backgrounds, deep knowledge in chosen disciplines, and technical, professional, and personal skills to become in their own careers the leaders and creative agents for change. It works to create innovative new models for graduate education and foster collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. It is also intended to facilitate greater diversity in student participation and preparation, and to contribute to the development of a diverse, globally-engaged science and engineering workforce.
Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
An International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Interfaith Dialogue. This journal highlights interdisciplinary, faith-informed reading, research, writing, book reviews, theme-oriented courses and seminars.
National Assoociation for Humanities Education
The National Association for Humanities Education is a professional organization for teachers, scholars, and museum directors in the humanities. NAHE publishes Interdisciplinary Humanities, a refereed scholarly journal, twice a year, and a newsletter three times a year. The 2007 Annual NAHE Conference is February 28 to March 3, 2007, in San Francisco, California.
New Directions: Science, Humanities, Policy
New Directions: Science, Humanities, Policy is committed to developing interdisciplinary approaches to societal problems in research and education. The connecting link for all activities is integrating the perspectives and insights of humanities with those of science, technology, and policy making. The website includes information on meetings, funded case studies, publications and other interdisciplinary resources, and product outcomes from workshops on the theme of "Cities and Rivers." The sponsoring institutions are the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Texas and the Rock Institute of Ethics at Pennsylvania State University.
Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) is an informal national alliance of individuals, institutions, and organizations committed to strengthening undergraduate science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education. PKAL's site maintains information about faulty, facilities, curriculum, and both national and institutional issues in the math, science, engineering, and technology education disciplines.
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
The Society for Literature, Science and the Arts fosters the multi-disciplinary study of the relations among literature and language, the arts, science, medicine and technology. The 21st Annual SLSA Conference will be November 1-4, 2007, in Portland Maine. The theme is: CODE, and the deadline for paper and panel submissions is March 15, 2007.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville's University Studies Program promotes interdisciplinary education and scholarship. The program offers faculty development workshops, a listing of interdisciplinary courses taught by their faculty, colloquia and lectures on interdisciplinary issues, and awards for faculty who engage in interdisciplinarity. The website contains sections on publications on interdisciplinarity as well as resources related to interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship initiatives.
Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education
A listing of curricular restructuring efforts that link or cluster classes during a given term, often around an interdisciplinary theme, that enroll a common cohort of students. These programs represent an intentional restructuring of students' time, credit and learning experiences, to foster more explicit intellectual connections between students, between students and their faculty, and between disciplines.
The World Lecture Hall (WLH)The WLH links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials. For example, you will find course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, and so on. The site is inclusive: expect to roam for a while. This site is managed by "Teamweb" at the University of Texas, Austin. WLH is organized by subject and includes areas such as liberal studies, cultural studies and women's studies.