Tag Archives: Interdisciplinarity

Ed Tech is an Interdisciplinary Field

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Katrin Becker

So why is it possible to get an Ed Tech degree by taking ONLY Education courses? It shouldn’t be. IT  (Information Technology), Education, Management, … are all APPLIED disciplines – if all you know is the one of these, you … Continue reading →

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Why Interdisciplinary Teams Often Don’t Work (though they could….)

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Katrin Becker

I came across this the other day (thanks! to Bonnie Bracey Sutton) Building an Interdisciplinary Identity in a (Mostly) Non-Interdisciplinary Academic World – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education. There are a few things in here that really struck … Continue reading →

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Be professional enough to do a decent literature review…

Posted on June 11, 2009 by Katrin Becker

SHEESH! I get a lot of papers to review in Game Studies; Serious Games; Educational Games., etc. I used to learn a lot from reading these papers. Not anymore. Not only is much of what I read “old news” (i.e. … Continue reading →

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It’s all a matter of point of view…

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Katrin Becker

for a computer scientist, everything is an algorithm. to a musician, everything is a song. to a writer, everything is a story. to thespians, everything is a play. to a film-maker, everything is a movie. to an educator, everything is … Continue reading →

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