An eLife paper should give the reader the pleasure of reading about elegant or clever experiments, of learning something new, of being challenged to think about their subject in a new way, or of seeing a particularly stunning image that has meaning because it shows some of the secrets of life.
Indeed, by the conclusion of the experiment, 78.9% of Learning antlions (15 of 19) already had pupated while only 35.3% of Random antlions (6 of 17) had pupated in that same time period.
Furthermore, we invite scholars and practitioners to apply, reflect and further develop the proposed tentative scheme – making evaluation and experiments objects of learning.
Craver and Darden (2013) also discuss more complex kinds of experiments for learning what sort of entity or activity contributes to a process and for learning more complex features of a mechanism's organization.
My research team and I conducted a longitudinal field experiment on the effects of learning skills for cultivating warmer interpersonal connections in daily life.
Many experiments on the role of learning in the amount eaten at a distinctive test meal have been claimed to observe "conditioned satiety".
The outcomes of that experiment led to a methodology of learning based on activating the operational infrastructure of mind, which enhances students' flexibility of thinking and predicts the capacity to solve creatively a variety of problems.
This would not destroy our diversity and difference, but would provide a common ground of learning and experimenting, from which we could engage more productively together.
This doesn't demand more study – as today's science might suggest – but rather a science of learning from experiments through robust monitoring and measurement of what is and is not working.
From the perspective of learning, ugly experiments taught students to practice free imagination.
