Learning mechanisms in multidisciplinary teamwork with real customers and open-ended problems
Heikkinen, J., & Isomöttönen, V. (2015). Learning mechanisms in multidisciplinary teamwork with real customers and open-ended problems. European Journal of Engineering Education, 40(6), 653-670. https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2014.1001818
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Recently, there has been a trend towards adding a multidisciplinary or multicultural element
to traditional monodisciplinary project courses in computing and engineering. In this article,
we examine the implications of multidisciplinarity for students’ learning experiences during
a one-semester project course for real customers. We use a qualitative research approach and
base our analysis on students’ learning reports on three instances of a project course titled
Multidisciplinary working life project. The main contribution of this article is the unified
theoretical picture of the learning mechanisms stemming from multidisciplinarity. Our main
conclusions are that (1) students generally have a positive view of multidisciplinarity; (2)
multidisciplinary teams enable students to better identify their own expertise, which leads
to increased occupational identity; and (3) learning experiences are not fixed, as team spirit
and student attitude play an important role in how students react to challenging situations
arising from introduction of the multidisciplinarity.
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