Education as a Complex System
It was a cold rainy day in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Navid was working in his office at E40, one of MIT ’s oldest buildings. E40 used to be a factory in the 1930s and was now hosting a large number of students, researchers, visitors, and faculty members. As a postdoctoral researcher, Navid was sharin...
| Main Authors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Article |
| Published: |
Wiley-Blackwell
2018
|
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115378 |
| _version_ | 1826190092573605888 |
|---|---|
| author | Ghaffarzadegan, Navid Hawley, Joshua Larson, Winston |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Ghaffarzadegan, Navid Hawley, Joshua Larson, Winston |
| author_sort | Ghaffarzadegan, Navid |
| collection | MIT |
| description | It was a cold rainy day in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Navid was working in his office at E40, one of MIT ’s oldest buildings. E40 used to be a factory in the 1930s and was now hosting a large number of students, researchers, visitors, and faculty members. As a postdoctoral researcher, Navid was sharing an office with another postdoc, a long-time friend. Like many
other researchers in temporary positions, they were both looking for tenure-track academic jobs. Navid and his friend had different training
and areas of interest, but they shared an opinion on the job outlook: it was not a seller’s market. Each job opening received hundreds of applica-
tions, and it was very difficult to compete. Standing near the window and sipping from his cup of coffee, Navid heard Professor Dick Larson knock on the door. Dick was Navid’s supervisor. |
| first_indexed | 2024-09-23T08:34:55Z |
| format | Article |
| id | mit-1721.1/115378 |
| institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| last_indexed | 2024-09-23T08:34:55Z |
| publishDate | 2018 |
| publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| record_format | dspace |
| spelling | mit-1721.1/1153782022-09-30T09:45:05Z Education as a Complex System Ghaffarzadegan, Navid Hawley, Joshua Larson, Winston Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society Larson, Richard Winston It was a cold rainy day in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Navid was working in his office at E40, one of MIT ’s oldest buildings. E40 used to be a factory in the 1930s and was now hosting a large number of students, researchers, visitors, and faculty members. As a postdoctoral researcher, Navid was sharing an office with another postdoc, a long-time friend. Like many other researchers in temporary positions, they were both looking for tenure-track academic jobs. Navid and his friend had different training and areas of interest, but they shared an opinion on the job outlook: it was not a seller’s market. Each job opening received hundreds of applica- tions, and it was very difficult to compete. Standing near the window and sipping from his cup of coffee, Navid heard Professor Dick Larson knock on the door. Dick was Navid’s supervisor. National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant 2U01GM094141-05) 2018-05-15T18:57:40Z 2018-05-15T18:57:40Z 2016-06 2018-05-14T18:58:56Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1092-7026 1099-1743 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115378 Ghaffarzadegan, Navid et al. “Education as a Complex System.” Systems Research and Behavioral Science 34, 3 (June 2016): 211–215 © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/SRES.2405 Systems Research and Behavioral Science Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Wiley-Blackwell PMC |
| spellingShingle | Ghaffarzadegan, Navid Hawley, Joshua Larson, Winston Education as a Complex System |
| title | Education as a Complex System |
| title_full | Education as a Complex System |
| title_fullStr | Education as a Complex System |
| title_full_unstemmed | Education as a Complex System |
| title_short | Education as a Complex System |
| title_sort | education as a complex system |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115378 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT ghaffarzadegannavid educationasacomplexsystem AT hawleyjoshua educationasacomplexsystem AT larsonwinston educationasacomplexsystem |