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Working in an interdisciplinary student team

Problem In interdisciplinary group work, the problem can occur, that several terms haven’t been familiar to all group members. This leads to a certain hierarchy due to the different educational background of the students.
Framework Heterogenous background of students like different studies or specializations
Solution The problem can be tackled by the following strategies:
- Mentoring the students before and during of the project
- Providing examples for the students (of previous projects)
- Ensure equally allocation of different studies in each team
- Constitute in the group contract, that the students with the needed background explain unknown terms to the group members
- Introduce a new task “common ontology”, where important terms needs to be defined by the team –> Soft introduction
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- Criteria for role assignment