Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

The purpose of the pilot project is for students to acquire practical experience with collaborative group work that involves multiple disciplinary backgrounds. The pilot project will support students’ abilities to identify and engage with challenges, barriers and potentials in Techno-Anthropological work across disciplines.

Students who complete the module can:

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• explain competencies that fellow students bring into the Master’s program
• communicate a scientific message in short
• explain differences between mono-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary
• present technical and socio-technical issues relevant for the study of technology in practice
• explain the Aalborg model for problem-based learning

Skills

• analyse professional domain practices in terms of their objectives
• identify interdisciplinary issues in technology development
• discuss Techno-Anthropology as an interdisciplinary area

Competences

• design, produce and present a scientific poster
• integrate different domain knowledge, paradigms and professional competencies into an inter-disciplinary research theme
• draft initiating problems relevant for the study of Technology in Practise from a socio-technical perspective

Type of instruction

Project work, supervisor and teacher feedback, lectures, classroom instructions, exercises, seminars, case analysis, reflection.

Exam

Exams