Cooperative Learning methods were used in a university-level manufacturing management program for students with a technical college preparation. Not only were the exam results improved, diagnostic tests indicated that the students had developed more effective learning and problem solving strategies when compared with similar students who had not learned in an interactive classroom.

Simulated learning environments provide an efficient means for improving individual skills in specific problem solving and learning situations. One crucial aspect of an optimal system for simulated training environments is its capability to keep track of the improvements of the user along the whole training process. In this paper we present a set-theoretical formal framework that can be applied...

Online courses have been criticized for their focus on knowledge acquisition rather than on how to solve authentic complex problems, a skill that is increasingly being recognized as critical to meeting the challenges in the real world. The purpose of this study was to explore whether between-group collaboration in project-based online courses can promote student learning of complex problem solv...

Simulation modelling is a powerful tool for problem understanding and problem solving. Constructing simulation models following the classical simulation modelling framework has disadvantage of being time consuming, hence making it expensive. Users can sometimes be reluctant to use simulation due to these reasons or implement simulation results. This paper proposes a new simulation approach that...

This article examines historical transformations of Japanese collective memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by utilizing a theoretical framework that combines a model of reiterated problem solving and a theory of cultural trauma. I illustrate how the event of the nuclear fallout in March 1954 allowed actors to consolidate previously fragmented commemorative practices into a master frame t...

This paper demonstrates the use of Generic Tasks to approach a problem of assigning ooces to a number of employees of diierent ranks, needs and qualiications. It is part of a cooperative project to compare approaches to the modeling of problem solving by having several research teams approach the same connguration problem. This solution shows how Generic Tasks can be used to provide a knowledge...