1 Course Logistics & Schedule
As this is the first offering of this course we may adjust the course plan and materials as the semester progresses, in response to feedback and experiences, but we will let you know of changes to the plan, schedule, activities, and/or grading system.
We will maintain a “live” course schedule on this course wiki below:
1.1 Course Overview Schedule
| Course.Block | Topic |
|---|---|
| Block 1: Initial traing in team-science skills | |
| Importance and rise of collaborative, interdisciplinary resarch and science | |
| Team building, team diversity, and social sensitivity | |
| Effective leadership skills; Effective team communication | |
| Constructive & destructive group behaviors; Conflict resolution | |
| Collaboration tools & strategies | |
| Collaborative manuscript & proposal writing | |
| Individual and team time and project management | |
| Block 2: Apply team-science skills through collaborative team projects | |
| Developing the team and the team-project; team composition | |
| Mapping a joint vision; Key project objectives or performance indicators | |
| Project workflow & concept maps; Group dynamics and member contributions | |
| Creating effective team policies, procedures and expectations; Authorship and data sharing policies | |
| Data management plans | |
| Assessing team functioning; Virtual collaboration | |
| Methods and modes for group self-assessment | |
| Final collabrative group presentations |
1.2 Course Detailed Schedule
coming soon