Multi-disciplinary teaching and learning - planning ahead for collaborative practice in an innovative era

Presenters: Ann Brantingham, Chengcheng Li, Gareth Morris, & Raffaele Pernice (Language Centre & Urban Planning and Design)

Keywords: Multi-disciplinary teaching and learning, Collaborative practice, Joint delivery

Drawing on examples from four Joint Delivery modules which are currently offered at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University this presentation provides a reflective and thought provoking discussion on the form, format and pedagogy currently underpinning some of the multi-disciplinary teaching and learning experiences offered at this internationally emerging institution and proposes suggestions for good practice in terms of taking them forward in future years. More specifically, through briefly highlighting the rationale behind the establishment of these modules, the curriculum and assessment developments that have taken place on them, and the evolving pedagogic practices which are employed by the practitioners who teach them the audience will be provided with a variety of collaborative teaching practice insights and also a number of ideas for how to better improve on what is currently offered in an exciting evolving area of learning and teaching. To do so this presentation will include, amongst other aspects, consideration of how to better use learning and teaching spaces, how to better integrate at times diverse topical elements, how and when to incorporate technology, and also how to better work with people from very different specialist and educational backgrounds, both staff and students. At the same time the reflective thoughts of those who have taught on these modules will be offered in terms of what was deemed to work well and what could be improved and also in terms of how some of the potential challenges facing multi-disciplinary teaching and learning collaborative practice might be either avoided or overcome in the years ahead.