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The authors describe ways in which design thinking gives students a chance to practice interdisciplinarity and engage with big questions. What if students were encouraged to bring those skills to bear on campus issues?

A conversation with Julie Thompson Klein of Wayne State University on different approaches to interdisciplinary teaching, and ways to support it at both the grassroots and institutional levels.

"Transdisciplinary" work asks students to apply knowledge from diverse fields to a project in an environment which may seem tangential to their academic fields. The model in this article resonates with much that we've heard about community-engaged learning, but it also has implications for any interdisciplinary course.

Different disciplinary pedagogies are fascinating; they always make me imagine how they might apply to other classrooms. The individual steps in the OMP process will look familiar to most teachers - but have you ever thought of them as a sequence to accomplish in one minute?

A review (published 2006) of available resources for interdisciplinary course design and teaching.

A remarkably even-handed article which really does take the provocative title as a question. Design thinking might well provide a useful problem-solving mode for interdisciplinary efforts and curricular coherence.

It's fascinating to watch the cross-disciplinary pedagogical discussions at the CIP.

As this profile of a tech-savvy French teacher shows, finding a way to bring a passion project into the classroom can create a more authentic experience for both professors and students.