Innovative Educational Collaboration between Colleges to Improve Disabilities and Enhance Learning
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Molly McClelland; Darrell Kleinke
- Source
- Michigan Academician. 40:107-116
- Subject
- Medical education
Activities of daily living
Higher education
Work (electrical)
Multidisciplinary approach
business.industry
Engineering education
Collaborative education
Pedagogy
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
Medicine
Health professions
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 2167-8634
0026-2005
Interdisciplinary collaboration in higher education can produce valuable learning experiences beyond that of a single discipline approach. The University of Detroit Mercy College of Engineering and College of Health Professions have effectively collaborated yielding results that benefit not only the student but physically challenged individuals living in the Detroit area. Teams of engineering students and nursing students work together on projects to build assistive devices that improve the lives of people in need. This paper describes the techniques, goals and objectives used in multidisciplinary collaborative education. Students who have completed the course have described an enhanced understanding of how to effectively collaborate with members of other disciplines. Clients who have worked with the multidisciplinary teams have benefited by receiving assistive devices that have significantly improved their activities of daily living.