Managing Teams and Creating Effective Learning Environments

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This chapter discusses the Psyche Mission and the collaboration with ASU's interplanetary initiative. It highlights the importance of teaching students how to learn and creating effective learning environments, as well as the challenges in undergraduate education.

Could we create more knowledge by changing the way we do scientific research? We spoke with NASA’s Psyche mission’s principal investigator and ASU Interplanetary Initiative vice president Lindy Elkins-Tanton about the limitations of “hero science,” and how she is using an inclusive model where collaborative teams pursue “profound and important questions.”

Read Lindy Elkins-Tanton’s essay, Time to Say Goodbye to Our Heroes?

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