Multidisciplinary Learning for Multifaceted Thinking in Globalized Society
Shigehiro Hashimoto
Multifaceted thinking is essential to address global proposal. Learning experience in multidisciplinary fields is useful. Following steps are important: multifaceted understanding the purpose of instructions to society, considering advantages and disadvantages, considering options, and considering relationship between individual behavior and society. As a multidisciplinary field, Biomedical Engineering has been applied to the present study. As a topic of case study, COVID-19 has been selected. While answering the questions, the students (in Japan, and in Thailand) noticed the multifaceted problem and the diversity of related disciplines. The education system provided the experience of linking biomedical engineering learning (statistics, bio measurement, cellular mechanics, micromachining, designing, immunology, artificial organs) to the proposal of the solution to the global problem. Full Text
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