An internet discussion workshop on Agricultural Biodiversity will be conducted
from February 27 through April 9, 2006
between students in the US and Italy on the topic of agricultural
biodiversity. Students from Italy will
be national and international students in the International Ph.D. Programme in
Agrobiodiversity at the Scuola Superiore
Sant'Anna, Pisa. The US students will be those enrolled in
Agronomy 517, Weed Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Iowa State University.
The workshop will by jointly organized and lead by moderators
at Iowa State University and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.
This forum is an experiment of a new, highly interactive, teaching approach, purposely aimed at a very heterogeneous and international group of student scholars. The forum is organized in 3 modules of 2 weeks each. Topics will be introduced by the coordinators at the beginning of each module. Then, students will write a short essay on the topic showing their viewpoints and perspectives, and subsequently comment on the essays of the other student from both continents. At the end of each module, and the workshop, the two leaders will prepare a short summary of the discussions.
The forum will be conducted entirely on the internet, relying on this web site as the hub and archive of the proceedings. The discussion will be conducted on a dedicated discussion site utilizing Moodle courseware.
• Discussion Contributions & Synopses
• Picture scrapbook of the workshop