Research on how people learn shows that teaching using active learning is more effective than just lecturing. We outline four concrete ways instructors can begin to apply active learning in their teaching: backward instruction design; expecting students to learn more than facts; posing "messy" problems for students to solve; and expecting students to talk, write, and collaborate. Each tactic is...

For architecture, the critical tool of the information age has been neither the telephone, the computer, nor even the network, but the constantly expanding Sweet's Catalog and the whole messy system of distributing information about building materials, products, and processes. Sweet's originated in the 1890s as a service of F.W. Dodge Construction (who also began publishing the Architectural Re...

In the same way that neither a messy lab bench nor a clean one is a reliable indicator of a researcher’s productivity, a protein’s function cannot be judged solely on the basis of its neatly folded and stable domains. As evidenced by recent work discussed in this Select, we are learning that intrinsically disordered regions feature in many of the cell’s most productive multitaskers, proteins wh...

This model was designed to look at the P cycle and therefore, the most important results are the changes in the P cycle between the different simulations. The removal of P from the ocean is messy it can be removed in multiple phases, which have complex relationships with the redox and biotic conditions near the sediment-water interface. Therefore, the discussion should really focus on these rem...

This paper reports the recent developments of the Gene Expression Messy Genetic Algorithm (GEMGA) research. It presents extensive experimental results for large problems with massive multi-modality, non-uniform scaling, and overlapping sub-problems. All the experimental results corroborate the linear time performance of the GEMGA for a wide range of problems, that can be decomposed into smaller...

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In what case do you like reading so much? What about the type of the growing wings on the way systems thinking for messy situations book? The needs to read? Well, everybody has their own reason why should read some books. Mostly, it will relate to their necessity to get knowledge from the book and want to read just to get entertainment. Novels, story book, and other entertaining books become so...

problems presented and the management of research show important differences, it is essential that industry continues to recruit its proper proportion of the available talent. Medawar has commented that the ordinary processes of scientific discovery are slow, messy and uneconomic and cannot be premeditated. Industry is recognizing that ‘creativity and ultimate rewards are sup ported by the grea...

This paper goes behind the scenes, from the author’s point of view, in the messy process of publishing papers in top quality journals. It describes the tortuous history of a particular paper that was eventually published in Information Systems Research to provide some insight, especially for those new to the academic world. It goes on to draw more general guidelines for shaping papers for publi...