I came here to quote this part (“We should also foster an environment where the Humanities is considered as an integral part of the curriculum, and not a check box to be ticked off in order to meet “minimum credit requirements.” And most importantly, our higher education system should rethink the workload that we give our students; students should be given a reasonable amount of time to have a positive and balanced learning experience, allowing them to devote just as much time to discipline-specific as well as professional/humanities/liberal arts courses.”) but I see you’ve beaten me too it.

So I can only add: bold, underline, underscore this. It’s so true and so important for higher education. Great post!

thank you for your post. This course made me reflect on how I see myself as a member of teaching community and how as a community we are capable of producing creative solutions as much as we interact and share.

Your title for this reminds me of a punk song by a band called Rancid titled “Ruby Soho” (mostly because the course’s refrain of “destination! unknown” matches your blog title, but eh). This really holds true for me if we picture that song as a metaphor for education, where the feeling is related to pedagogy, and we think of ourselves as Ruby here:

“Ruby’s heart ain’t beatin cause she knows the feelin’ is gone
she’s not the only one who knew there’s somethin’ wrong
her lover’s in the distance as she wipes a tear from her eye
ruby’s fading out, she disappears, it’s time, time to say goodbye

Destination! Unknown.
Ruby ruby ruby ruby soho”

Thanks for taking me waaaay back musically, and letting me finding a way that this relates to us as teachers.

Thank you for your blog post. I share your vision about benefitting from diverse disciplinary perspectives. Obviously, the course load and designs do not allow an effective interaction, yet as teachers, we can learn from each other and integrate perspectives in our teaching practices. I believe we need to start creating the spaces in which we can learn and inspired by each other.

I’m with you on this – “No technique is ‘correct’ for all cases or people.”

10 points to Gryffindor for a very creatively titled post, too.

Humanness is an important virtues that we learn to practice throughout our lives. I am not sure how you think it can be taught to students. I’d love to hear you about that.

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I fully agree with your post. I believe as an engineering student, my experience in higher education has been worthwhile by having access to courses such as this one and the Preparing Future Professoriate course. Empathy comes from different perspectives in my opinion. Thanks for your post!

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I fully agree with your post. I believe as an engineering student, my experience in higher education has been worthwhile by having access to courses such as this one and the Preparing Future Professoriate course. Empathy comes from different perspectives in my opinion. Thanks for your post!

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I fully agree with your post. I believe as an engineering student, my experience in higher education has been worthwhile by having access to courses such as this one and the Preparing Future Professoriate course. Thanks for your post!

Having a holistic teaching experience in engineering can be difficult. As an engineering student who is near the end of my studies, I can definitely say I am burnt out. However, given the opportunities to take a course like this one is worthwhile and has allowed me to see the world from a different perspective. I believe as long as we make it accessible to engineering students to have these courses available to them, it will contribute to the type of learning experience you are touching on.