Transdeep learning in higher education: Institutionalising transdisciplinarity

This think piece was serendipitous. While investigating deep learning and transdisciplinary learning for another paper, a Google Scholar search using transdisciplinary deep learning generated zero results. Transdisciplinary, deep learning yielded nominal results. Neither term was defined or elaborated. This unexpected outcome prompted an intellectual exploration of the import of the comma. We deduced that it matters, coined the neologism transdeep learning and speculated about its conceptualisation. Our thoughts (findings per se) may shape how (if) universities institutionalise transdisciplinarity in their modus operandi. We recommend strategically, sequentially, institutionalising deep learning, then transdisciplinary learning followed by transdisciplinary, deep learning; and, ultimately, transdeep learning. We offer transdeep learning as an avant-garde, next-level construct that can inform higher education's strategic planning, academic infrastructure, curricular development, pedagogy, and research within and outside the academy via ties with industry, government, and civil society.