TY - GEN
T1 - BC4ECO - Using Visual Tools for a Shared Understanding and Pedagogical Approach across an Interdisciplinary Consortium
AU - Peruccon, Andy
AU - Lyons, Roisin
AU - De Gotzen, Amalia
AU - Margaria, Tiziana
AU - Simeone, Luca
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Blockchains
KW - DLT
KW - Erasmus+
KW - behaviour engineering
KW - design science
KW - environmental sciences
KW - interdisciplinary collaboration
KW - learning pedagogy
KW - visual tools
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85171734790&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/COMPSAC57700.2023.10223442
DO - 10.1109/COMPSAC57700.2023.10223442
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85171734790
T3 - Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference
SP - 1890
EP - 1895
BT - Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 47th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2023
A2 - Shahriar, Hossain
A2 - Teranishi, Yuuichi
A2 - Cuzzocrea, Alfredo
A2 - Sharmin, Moushumi
A2 - Towey, Dave
A2 - Majumder, AKM Jahangir Alam
A2 - Kashiwazaki, Hiroki
A2 - Yang, Ji-Jiang
A2 - Takemoto, Michiharu
A2 - Sakib, Nazmus
A2 - Banno, Ryohei
A2 - Ahamed, Sheikh Iqbal
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 47th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2023
Y2 - 26 June 2023 through 30 June 2023
ER -
