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Hack it with EDUCHIC ! Educational hackathons and interdisciplinary challenges—Definitions, principles, and pedagogical guidelines

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Whereas hackathons are widespread within and outside academia and have been argued to be a valid pedagogical method for teaching interdisciplinarity, no detailed frameworks or methods are available for conceptualizing and organizing educational hackathons, i.e., hackathons dedicated to best achieving pedagogic objectives. This paper is dedicated to introducing EDUCational Hackathons for learning how to solve Interdisciplinary Challenges (EDUCHIC) through: (1) defining the fundamental principles for framing an activity as an EDUCHIC, integrating principles from pedagogical methods, hackathon organization, and interdisciplinarity processes; (2) describing general properties that EDUCHIC possess as a consequence of the interaction of the fundamental principles; (3) developing operational guidelines for streamlining the practical organization of EDUCHIC, including an exhaustive end‐to‐end process covering all the steps for organizing EDUCHIC and practical frames for carrying the key decisions to be made in this process; and (4) a demonstration of these guidelines through illustrating their application for organizing a concrete EDUCHIC.

Source: European Journal of Education

DOI: 10.1111/ejed.12658

Authors: Loïs Vanhée, Karin Danielsson, Lena Enqvist, Kalle Grill, Melania Borit

Institutions: Umeå University, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Language: English

Topic: Biomedical and Engineering Education

Subfield: Biomedical Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,190