Case Studies in Teaching Systems Thinking

Heuristic for Teaching Systems Thinking

Systems thinking in practice is a heuristic framework based upon ideas of boundary critique for guiding the use and development of tools from different traditions in managing complex realities. Three interrelated features of the framework are drawn out – contexts of systemic change, practitioners as change agents, and tools as systems constructs that can themselves change through adaptation. A ...

Transforming Education: Case Studies in Systems Thinking AERA 1999

Teaching Systems Thinking to Industrial Engineering Students

This paper describes the development of a senior and a graduate level course on Systems Engineering and Design for Industrial Engineering students. Students are first taught ‘Classical Systems Engineering’ topics, and they are then exposed to Sociotechnical System Theory (SST), Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE) and Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). These methodologies are treated as complementa...

Promotion of critical thinking by using case studies as teaching method.

This paper examines the use of case studies as teaching strategies to promote critical thinking. Critical thinking and case studies are defined as teaching method. The benefits and limitations of case studies are also discussed. The literature review investigates research studies that have indicated how case studies facilitate and promote active learning, help clinical problem solving, and enco...

Practical Case Studies in Teaching Concurrency

As with all aspects of computing, there are four main strands to teaching concurrency, viz hardware, theory, applications and programming, with programming linking the other three together. The basic requirements for practical work for each of these strands are discussed, and the problems of meeting these requirements. These have usually limited practical work in concurrency either to theoretic...