BC4ECO - Using Visual Tools for a Shared Understanding and Pedagogical Approach across an Interdisciplinary Consortium

Andy Peruccon, Roisin Lyons, Amalia De Gotzen, Tiziana Margaria, Luca Simeone

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Abstract

Effective communication is crucial when working on complex or wicked problems in interdisciplinary, international teams. Developing a shared understanding of critical concepts and aligning knowledge, focus, and resources can be problematic when stakeholders speak different languages, span several disciplines and work within different national or industry-based norms. Using visual tools to represent critical concepts and their relations, and map out our strategic goals has greatly helped combat such issues. This paper recounts the use and impact of adopting visual tools within the transnational and interdisciplinary collaborative environment in the BC4ECO project's international consortium. The Miro Board and the canvas approach greatly helped represent, visualise, and thus concretise the structure and contents of our collaboration, which takes place within a 3 years ERASMUS+ framework that builds and delivers Summer School, MOOCS as well as teacher and multiplier events about harnessing the potential of Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) for environmental sustainability. As the materials and MOOCS are expected to become Open Education Resources and have a wide impact, it is particularly crucial to get the contents as well as the pedagogy right, in spite of the team's differences in almost any dimension of background and culture.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2023 IEEE 47th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2023
EditorsHossain Shahriar, Yuuichi Teranishi, Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Moushumi Sharmin, Dave Towey, AKM Jahangir Alam Majumder, Hiroki Kashiwazaki, Ji-Jiang Yang, Michiharu Takemoto, Nazmus Sakib, Ryohei Banno, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1890-1895
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9798350326970
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event47th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2023 - Hybrid, Torino, Italy
Duration: 26 Jun 202330 Jun 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference
Volume2023-June
ISSN (Print)0730-3157

Conference

Conference47th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2023
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityHybrid, Torino
Period26/06/2330/06/23

Keywords

  • Blockchains
  • DLT
  • Erasmus+
  • behaviour engineering
  • design science
  • environmental sciences
  • interdisciplinary collaboration
  • learning pedagogy
  • visual tools

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