Comments on: Pasteur’s and Edison’s Quadrants http://openeducationresearch.org/2009/01/pasteurs-and-edisons-quadrants/ Research in open education and education research in the open. Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:13:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Pull: A Key for Empathy-Driven Innovation « Innovation « Innovation Leadership Network http://openeducationresearch.org/2009/01/pasteurs-and-edisons-quadrants/comment-page-1/#comment-2852 Pull: A Key for Empathy-Driven Innovation « Innovation « Innovation Leadership Network Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:13:43 +0000 http://openeducationresearch.org/2009/01/pasteurs-quadrant/#comment-2852 [...] But it does mean that we need to undertake research (and thinking) in Pasteur’s Quadrant (described nicely here, the source of the diagram) – where the ideas that we develop are [...] [...] But it does mean that we need to undertake research (and thinking) in Pasteur’s Quadrant (described nicely here, the source of the diagram) – where the ideas that we develop are [...]

]]> By: Excellence, Access, Impact « UI Fellows Blog http://openeducationresearch.org/2009/01/pasteurs-and-edisons-quadrants/comment-page-1/#comment-2849 Excellence, Access, Impact « UI Fellows Blog Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:26:53 +0000 http://openeducationresearch.org/2009/01/pasteurs-quadrant/#comment-2849 [...] fellowship at Arizona State University is opening my eyes to the importance of use-inspired research and the urgent need for universities to achieve excellence, access and impact simultaneously.  It [...] [...] fellowship at Arizona State University is opening my eyes to the importance of use-inspired research and the urgent need for universities to achieve excellence, access and impact simultaneously.  It [...]

]]> By: Subtema 1.1 Definiciones y tipos de investigación « Blog de Álvaro Rendón http://openeducationresearch.org/2009/01/pasteurs-and-edisons-quadrants/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Subtema 1.1 Definiciones y tipos de investigación « Blog de Álvaro Rendón Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:09:26 +0000 http://openeducationresearch.org/2009/01/pasteurs-quadrant/#comment-224 [...] muy bien en este documento, de modo que conviene echarle un vistazo a la contribución “Pasteur’s and Edison’s Quadrants” en el blog Open Education [...] [...] muy bien en este documento, de modo que conviene echarle un vistazo a la contribución “Pasteur’s and Edison’s Quadrants” en el blog Open Education [...]

]]> By: Thomas Harris http://openeducationresearch.org/2009/01/pasteurs-and-edisons-quadrants/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Thomas Harris Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:24:17 +0000 http://openeducationresearch.org/2009/01/pasteurs-quadrant/#comment-7 Interesting article. In Edison's case the basic science just wasn't there. We didn't understand a lot of other things his inventions depended on until 20 years later. Oddly enough, that doesn't seem to be what Whitehurst is arguing. He seems to be saying that we understand well enough, but that the real world is too messy for proper implementation of those ideas! Instead, we should concentrate on doing the things that seem to work well (lab results) but that we don't necessarily have a theoretical understanding of. Odd argument, but maybe it's a good policy for the current situation. It obviously comes with built-in concerns, as Tesla pointed out. Interesting article.

In Edison’s case the basic science just wasn’t there. We didn’t understand a lot of other things his inventions depended on until 20 years later. Oddly enough, that doesn’t seem to be what Whitehurst is arguing. He seems to be saying that we understand well enough, but that the real world is too messy for proper implementation of those ideas! Instead, we should concentrate on doing the things that seem to work well (lab results) but that we don’t necessarily have a theoretical understanding of.

Odd argument, but maybe it’s a good policy for the current situation. It obviously comes with built-in concerns, as Tesla pointed out.

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