Chapter 17: Develop Problem-Solving, Teamwork, and Effective Communication Skills Through Designing an Interdisciplinary Networked Collaborative Online International Learning Project

Implementing competency-based university education necessitates creative teaching and learning methods that support students’ transdisciplinary and articulated training. This article’s goal is to provide a concept for collaborative learning among a network of undergraduate health sciences and pharmacy students in order to help them improve their problem-solving, collaboration, and communication abilities.

The suggested problem-based learning activity is explained for this purpose, together with its contextualization, execution strategy, required resources, and assessment tools. This concept for collaborative learning is meant to serve as a model for other multidisciplinary learning opportunities that focus on building the skills that college students will need in their future careers. The activity’s implementation has been conditioned by several significant factors that set it apart from other activities, including the subjects’ vastly different knowledge domains, their fundamental nature, and the students’ lack of prior experience with this kind of activity. Despite these conditioning variables, both students and teachers have had a strong positive opinion of the exercise.