I have also found twitter to be a great way to stay up to date with news in my field, and reading articles written by scholars in my field aswell

Being able to see the view and ideas of my peers when reading articles allows me to understand perspectives outside of my own

This makes expanding our learning easier for everyone, whereas with a typical textbook there is the issue of having to pay which is not always a simple option for students.

This is another great learning aspect from IDS intro, I have learned many different ideas and aspects from many articles, and now see many of the different ways people can be involved in their disciplines

There is something very empowering about building your own program, and the motivation, for me, stemmed from taking courses that I was interested in learning in depth about course material

This a very important concept for students, as many students rush through the first two years of college to get requirements out of the way, and later ending up finding out this is not even what they're interested in.

My grades began to improve once I declared my IDS major. I found that when the courses I was taking were all courses that interested me and related to my interests and future, that I began getting better grades and genuienly enjoying learning.

A very interesting study, which will benefit greatly from a interdisciplinary point of view

Maybe educators should think about explaining this concept to students, as it is very important to understand the world around you and not just what is in front of you

I love the idea of this article, putting one topic into perspective, and evaluating the importance of its parts.

Again, I couldn't agree more. Learning about interdisciplinarity has made me feel empowered with my education and where I want my education to take me

I wonder if this has to do with disciplines; everyone studies the same required material for their degree, therefor no one has the option to bring anything new and exciting to the table

I agree! I think it makes learning more interesting

I agree with this, often when speaking about interdisciplinarity we talk about how empowering it can be to bring outside knowledge to specialists. The outside knowledge is important but the specialists are he most important part as they have the most knowledge of the topic.

I have already learned so much about the importance of being versatile in a discipline.

This is an extremely important statement. I feel like education has become so routine and automatic to students not everyone remembers that building your future does not stop when college ends

This is true as soon as a student finds out that a topic will not be useful, which is why it is important for students to have the opportunity to be control of what they learn.

I had never really thought about all of the outside factors that you are taught through a discipline and how important they also are to your future career

Its frustrating that students are given an unfair advantage in a way when they are just entering a discipline that interests them.

This idea is extremely similar to interdisiplinarity in the way that students are able to choose a path that is completely their own

I had found the narrow-ness of disciplines so surprising once I began to study it, I hadn't even noticed that I had practically grown up experiencing it.

I agree with this, I think if more people knew about interdisciplinarity they would be intrigued

Considering there seemed to have been so many cases where specialists make large mistakes because of a lack of outside knowledge, I'm surprised no one considered interdisciplinarity sooner.

This is true in some cases, but I believe students often end up having to compromise some of their passions

What made them stop?

I find it extremely interesting that even in 1869, there were ideas of having open education, but for some reason not enough people take advantage of it

This is very interesting. To see first hand how someone could be so accidentally blind about about something outside their discipline. Even though the information he needed was easily accessible, the though may have never crossed his mind

This is an interesting concept to me, that people from other disciplines can bring insight from the perspectives of outsiders.

I feel this quote says a lot about how liberating it can be to to explore knowledge freely

I had never really considered the two forms of knowledge as "enemies"

It is very important to understand the place of your discipline in a world view

This is a very effective form of thinking, and helps to gain further understanding of a topic

This is a good metaphor for finding the right version of interdisciplinarity, using whichever form of discipline affects you

Multidisciplinary gives an opportunity to improve a discipline and give students more knowledge relating to their field

This would open many doors to new ideas, having specialists and also generalists to keep certain ideas in line

I find this to be another very large flaw in the education system. This is a problem that some professors notice and attend to, while others don't consider that students don't even have other courses with other homework.

I had not even considered how confining studying one particular field could be. You really don't get much opportunity to study outside topics that can play a large role in your field.

I feel as though this is something that the education system as a whole is becoming. Students focus on getting to the next step and not gaining knowledge or learning from expierence

very often because most topics not chosen by students

This will make students feel more connected to their work since it is going into a system that lets them keep it and deicide what to do with it. instead of just submitting something and never thinking about it again

I believe more students would be able to take advantage of this opportunity if it were presented to them and encouraged earlier on in their education

Very convenient way to stay on top of assignments and grades. Even certain features like being able to stop and come back to an assignment after you had already started it most likely made for better work

If someone were to have all of their assignments all throughout their high school and college career I believe there would be more effort put into their work because they see themselves progress and don't just do an assignment for a passing grade and never think about the assignment again

Taking the approach of actually helping kids through ways they can improve their online presence instead of instilling fear has shown more of a positive impact on many of these occasions

Students being able to have somewhere to keep some of their own work from that they deem important opens many doors for the future

I find it interesting that students opinions on all of the decisions made about their own education and online privacy are often ignored/not taken into consideration