Where there is freedom to share and collaborate, there is often also freedom to abuse and exploit,

Without access to these literacies, contemporary scholars and learners will be ineffective participants in online spaces.

To illustrate further, massive open online courses (MOOCs)

Education is a matter of sharing

looks to digital media

a disconnect between classroom and everyday learning

Students have been learning and teachers have been teaching since the beginning of human existence, probably often without even knowing it.

Although it is a widely used concept, very few undergraduates can actually define what a “discipline” is.

 Students who took these courses were sent pamphlets and textbooks through the United States Postal Service.  After completing the chapter, they would mail it back and request the next one.

The meaning of a sentence will depend on its relationship to other sentences, and the meaning of a short story will be up for debate depending on the evidence that individual readers assemble.

the subsidized meal programs at the school, the start time of the school day

Interdisciplinarity is like mixing paint. You can lay colors side-by-side to create beautiful paintings (multidisciplinarity), or you can mix them together to get totally new colors (interdisciplinarity).

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istance: mixing Mackintosh and Winesap apples would result in less amalgamation than the mixing of oranges and grapefruits

or they can be finely blended so that the distinctive flavor of each is no longer recognizable, yielding instead the delectable experience of the smoothie.

Because many academic institutions have promotional policies that allow 4–10 years before faculty are “up or out,”

The process of moving a drug from the discovery process to clinical trials requires teamwork.

To complete general and subspecialty training in most medical specialties requires 5 years or more after medical school. Little or none of this clinical training is directed toward research, so those interested in research must complete an additional 2 years or more either in the graduate student or at the postdoctoral level.

Discipline-oriented departments constitute a functional authority structure in charge of teaching, faculty recruitment, advancement, and promotion—as well as degree programs and courses.

A possible consequence of not having a team process is that crucial voices will be missing in defining and solving the research problem.

“different disciplines are continually rediscovering one another's discoveries, because they all have different names for them”

Almost three-fourths (2,995 of 4,071) of the responding society members reported that they “agreed” or “agreed emphatically.

Exploring topics across a range of subject boundaries motivates students to pursue new knowledge in different subject areas.

Constructivism is a theory about how people learn. This theory suggests that people create their own understanding and knowledge of the world through experiences and reflection on those experiences.

An outsider's perspective, then, is particularly valuable at times of crisis.

The new invention of the vein detector is a device that digitally shows ones veins under ones skin for medical personal to instantly find your vein to draw blood, or insert a catheter of many sources.

interdisciplinary studies is proven to broaden our intellectual horizons,

Engaging in this study has had me step back from each discipline of my choice, and relate the assumptions of both, which has ended up teaching me a lot about myself.

Just think about it, if everyone just stuck to guidelines and tradition, the world would never grow and would never have the chance to become any better.

Our society is only starting to get the ball rolling on interdisciplinary communication.

Other colonial colleges include the College of William and Mary, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, Brown University, Rutgers University, and Dartmouth College.

A community college

The higher education system in the United States is very different from the systems found in many other countries and cultures.

This was weird to think of how they are able to still make a social connection when in competition.

at first in the sciences and then eventually all the discipline

Religious affiliation occurs in many forms. A religious denomination or order directly controls some institutions, whereas others have only nominal relationships with religious bodies or sponsors.

"new nation," remained faithful to many of the tenets of English common law. For example, in New England states, the small farms and principle of primogeniture forbade the division of a father's land among numerous sons, so families had to find useful work for those sons not inheriting land.