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Direct linkDenning, Peter J.; Hiles, John E. – Computer Science Education, 2006
Transformational Events is a new pedagogic pattern that explains how innovations (and other transformations) happened. The pattern is three temporal stages: an interval of increasingly unsatisfactory ad hoc solutions to a persistent problem (the "mess"), an offer of an invention or of a new way of thinking, and a period of widespread adoption and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Innovation, Sequential Approach, Prediction
