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Planting The Seeds Of Change And Growing The Fruits Of Transdisciplinary Educational Design, Meg O'Reilly
Planting The Seeds Of Change And Growing The Fruits Of Transdisciplinary Educational Design, Meg O'Reilly
Dr Meg O'Reilly
The professional practice of educational design normally involves collaborating with a subject matter expert on a one-to-one basis and is only occasionally undertaken in teams. This thesis argues that a team-based approach to educational design is powerful and particularly so when transdisciplinary collaborations are facilitated. Transdisciplinary educational design is the process of standing outside one’s discipline to collaborate with colleagues from the technical sphere, the library and other disciplines. The common ground shared by the transdisciplinary teams in this research was student assessment.
The core data collection for this research was completed between July 2002 and June 2005. Using an …