Willingness to Comply with Corporate Law: An Interdisciplinary Teaching Method in Higher Education

Using an innovation training project, an interdisciplinary cross-sectional teaching strategy was developed to enhance students’ willingness to comply with the law. Thirty-five business, finance and accounting teachers examined the effects of ethical education on 484 university students’ willingness to comply with corporate law. Ethical education was based on building students’ ethical decisions on three court judgments in the new Spanish Corporate Governance Code. The ethical training was carried out by developing and applying social justice counter arguments. This perspective allowed students to imagine what decisions other person could have taken if they had managed the company ethically. The results suggest that ethics education in higher education can improve the willingness to comply the law. This methodology can be applied to interdisciplinary departments teaching ethics in business, finance and accounting

Experiences of mathematical relevance in project-based education among selected youths between 14-and-15-year-olds in Norway

Mastergradsoppgave i realfagenes didaktikk, Høgskolen i Innlandet, 2021.The LK20 curriculum emphasizes three interdisciplinary themes which lend themselves well to project-based learning (PBL). Attempting to determine what makes such a project mathematically relevant, this study looks at the interdisciplinary PBL- implementation in a Norwegian junior high school. Using a phenomenological analysis of interview data from 13 pupils at the school, the study identifies several aspects which may help improve mathematical relevancy in association with interdisciplinary projects for 14–15-year-olds. It also highlights potential negative aspects which may be detrimental to the perceived relevance of a project

Using service learning to teach sustainable agriculture in downtown Columbia

Project Leaders: Pat Margherio, Dr. Jan Weaver, Nancy Monteer, Dr. Chris Starbuck, Bill McKelveyProposal for the project "Service Learning to Teach Sustainable Agriculture in Downtown Columbia." From the original description: "This direct action interdisciplinary project will investigate sustainability on many levels. Students will improve urban agriculture infrastructure, examine the use of bike trailers, and compost food scrap “waste” from Rollins Dining. Students will design and implement a three-year garden experiment that tests different soil treatments and crop rotations. Data will be collected with hand held computer devices."MU Interdisciplinary Innovations Fun

The Interdisciplinary Communication and Collaboration Initiative

Background: Sentara RMH Medical Center has strived to improve communication within the interdisciplinary team. Recently implemented was “Flash Rounds” in which every day interdisciplinary team members (except the bedside nurse) gather to discuss their patients’ plan for the day. Charge nurses do not feel this is helpful because sometimes they don’t have time to check in before or after rounds with the bedside nurses. However, those physicians who take the time to call the nurses after rounds to update them are well received and appreciated. Purpose: The purpose of this project is to determine if nurse-physician bedside rounding can improve length of stay primarily, along with patient satisfaction and nurse-physician relationships. Methods: This project will use a PDSA cycle framework. Physicians will initiate bedside rounding after attending “flash rounds”. Feedback will be obtained from the nurses and physicians to assess the rounding process and make changes as necessary. Results: Results are pending as project is ongoing. Data points for this project include patient satisfaction score specific to nurse and physician satisfaction, length of stay, paging frequency, rounding compliance and nurse/physician perception. Conclusion: The end goal for this project is to not only improve communication and collaboration between nurses and physician but to improve the care and satisfaction for the patients

CoMFORT ventilation mask project - Lessons learned from the field

This paper reports and discusses some key methods and findings of the inter-disciplinary design team undertaking a three year study into improving comfort for paediatric users of Non Invasive Ventilation (NIV) in the NHS. The project proposes a novel use of 3D scanning and printing technologies to offer a bespoke mask provision service. Five "lessons" are proposed and contextualised with example scenarios from the project. Key findings have shown the importance of 1. Visual communication methods 2. Involving diverse stakeholder groups 3. Getting hands on with enabling technologies 4. Designing and making test rigs 5. Going around, not stopping at obstacles We conclude that the visual and tangible methods favoured by 3D designers can help to achieve project aims in interdisciplinary projects. They can improve project outcomes by encouraging engagement with collaborators and stakeholders, as well as building up tacit knowledge of the project context, the enabling technologies and the materials. This paper also identifies opportunities for areas of related future research

Standardized Communication at the Bedside: A Review for Reimplementation

This paper discusses a developmental, interdisciplinary quality improvement project that seeks to improve healthcare communication by standardizing clinician communication across all levels of care. The purpose of this project was to develop an organizational policy and interdisciplinary practice guidelines to standardize the patient handoff at the bedside. The initiative intended to use processes already in place in the organization and to integrate the knowledge from a literature review to plan the implementation of bedside handoff procedures. The quality improvement project process included assembling an interdisciplinary committee; reviewing relevant peer-reviewed literature; and developing policy, relevant guidelines, as well as long-term plans for implementation and evaluation. The literature review synthesis followed the practices suggested by Thomas and Harden. Key words were identified and coded by theme. The themes reflected patient satisfaction domains as related to communication. The headers for the literature synthesis matrix reflected the areas of communication most likely to be affected by using standardized communication at the bedside. The products of the project provide the organization with a policy and guidelines to support and sustain standardized communication at the bedside for patient handoff, as well as detailed plans for implementing and evaluating the quality improve initiative as a whole. This provides a turnkey solution to a practice problem in this specific organizational context. The project contributes to social change by breaking with long-standing traditions and implementing a patient-centered interdisciplinary communication process at the bedside, creating a process by which patient satisfaction and quality of care may be increased across socioeconomic status

Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Homecare Setting

Background: Communication among interdisciplinary team members is a key component in providing quality care to patients. In the homecare setting, there are unique challenges to ensure effective communication occurs. Purpose: To compare perceived interdisciplinary collaboration and work engagement between a team of homecare clinicians who were involved with identifying why critical clinical and social information is not communicated with a team of homecare clinicians who were not involved Theoretical Framework. The Person Environment Occupation Performance (PEOP) model provided the theoretical framework for this project. Methods. A quasi-experimental interrupted time series design with an intervention and control group was used. The intervention included a focus group of healthcare clinicians who identified why critical clinical and social information is not communicated and developed a solution to improve communication. Control and intervention groups completed the Index of Interdisciplinary Collaboration (IIC) and Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) at weeks 1, 5 and 7. Results: Intervention group increased their perceived interdisciplinary collaboration and work engagement as measured by the IIC and UWES. Conclusions: Empowering homecare clinicians to develop strategies to improve interdisciplinary communication is beneficial to improve interdisciplinary collaboration and work engagement. Actively involving homecare clinicians in identifying issues and developing solutions may lead to improved collaboration and work engagement

Improving Students’ Oral Communication Skills Through an Interdisciplinary Problem-Based Learning Opportunity in a Sport Management Course

This study adopted several pedagogical foundations to determine if an interdisciplinary, problem-based learning (PBL) opportunity applied to teaching sport marketing would improve student’ individual and group oral communication skills. Faculty from two departments collaborated to create an assignment that was a hands-on class project designed around formative assessment, lecture intervention, and final PBL deliverable. The PBL and interdisciplinary design addressed the need for enhanced communication skills in the sport management industry. The study results indicate a successful development of the students’ data analysis and presentation skills. Findings confirm an interdisciplinary approach to PBL by implementing communication skill development across disciplines

Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) partners with Community-based Organizations (CBOs)

This Interdisciplinary Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) and Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) funded-program aims at providing long-term, graduate level interdisciplinary training to health professionals and family members. The purpose of this project is to develop leadership potential to improve the health status of infants, children, and adolescents with or at risk for neurodevelopmental and related disabilities and to enhance the systems of care for these children and their families

Interdisciplinary Walks: Investigating the benefits of walking for research

The Interdisciplinary Walks project was funded by the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) between May and July 2022. It set out to encourage staff members to think outside their own disciplinary silos whilst getting familiar with University of Leicester surroundings, from the main and north campus to the School of Business at Brookfield, and the Space Park. Consultations with 29 members of staff asking about their interdisciplinary research and favourite walks were conducted via Zoom and recorded for use on the WordPress site www.leicias.le.ac.uk. Intended outputs from the Interdisciplinary Walks project included an A5 map booklet (with a print run of c.500 copies) drawn by illustrator Amy McKay, web content including edited audio recordings of consultations and accompanying transcripts, and six visualisations of the audio clips created by visual storytelling agency Nifty Fox Creative. This working paper provides an overview of the project as it progressed, with the final sections reflecting upon the benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary research and the value of walking and thinking as viewed by academic researchers. The consultations recognised the importance of access to parks and green spaces, and identified four key walking behaviours: walking alone, together, to disconnect, and to focus. The project concludes that by understanding individual preferences in how we walk, researchers can harness the potential of walking as a tool to improve mind, body, and research