Optimal Conflict in Team-Based Laboratory Culture

Hospitals turning to team-based conflict resolution.

Team-Based Learning in Chemistry Courses with Laboratory Sessions

The implementation of Team-Based Learning (TBL, http://www.teambasedlearning.org) in one-semester undergraduate courses of chemistry offered to first year students is reported. TBL is an active learning instructional strategy heavily relying on small group interaction. Teaching lab classes in a TBL context presented a specific challenge, as decisions were required about their role in the global...

Finding an Optimal Team

This article proposes a metaheuristic optimization/social simulation approach to find the optimal team for a given type of the project. The quality of the team is assessed in a black-box optimization environment, where the optimized function acts as a metaphor of the project to be completed within the certain time limit (number of fitness function evaluations) and each fitness function evaluati...

When Conflict Crosses Cultural Lines: How Culture Informs Conflict

Diverse cultural experience provides tremendous educational value. At the same time, it presents the possibility for increased misunderstanding and conflict. While conflict can happen with students of the same background, cross-cultural dynamics tend to add complexities to tension. Using a tool such as the Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory, we Mve helped college student leaders build stron...

Conflict-Based Search for Optimal Multi-Agent Path Finding

In the multi agent path finding problem (MAPF) paths should be found for several agents, each with a different start and goal position such that agents do not collide. Previous optimal solvers applied global A*-based searches. We present a new search algorithm called Conflict Based Search (CBS). CBS is a two-level algorithm. At the high level, a search is performed on a tree based on conflicts ...