Search Results - subject:"Active Learning"

Teaching Globalization through a Gender Lens

Bergeron, Suzanne - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 36 (2004) 3, pp. 314-320

This article examines the pedagogical benefits associated with teaching globalization from a feminist perspective. In addition to its focus on the often neglected gender dimensions of globalization, the feminist approach provides a less abstract and disempowering understanding of global...

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Active and Cooperative Learning Using Web-Based Simulations

Schmidt, Stephen J. - In: Journal of Economic Education 34 (2003) 2, pp. 151-168

The author discusses the advantages of using computers and the World Wide Web in classroom simulation exercises. Using networked computers permits a richer simulation design, allows more complicated decisions by the students, and facilitates reporting results for later discussion. The Web is an...

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Calculating the Candy Price Index: A Classroom Inflation Experiment

Hazlett, Denise; Hill, Cynthia D. - In: Journal of Economic Education 34 (2003) 3, pp. 214-223

In this classroom experiment, students develop a price index based on candy-purchasing decisions made by members of their class. They use their index to practice calculating inflation rates and to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the consumer price index (CPI). Instructors can use the...

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Action learning worldwide : experiences of leadership and organizational development

Boshyk, Yuri (contributor) - 2002

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Active learning in small and large classes

Murdoch, Brock; Guy, Paul - In: Accounting Education 11 (2002) 3, pp. 271-282

of an active learning environment. In-class group activities were implemented as an integral part of the learning … whether active learning methods are differentially effective in large and small classes when learning is measured by …

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Statistical Asymptotic Theory of Active Learning

Kanamori, Takafumi - In: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 54 (2002) 3, pp. 459-475

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Enhancing accounting students' problem-solving skills: the use of a hands-on conceptual model in an active learning environment

Kern, Beth - In: Accounting Education 11 (2002) 3, pp. 235-256

This study documents and evaluates the effectiveness of using a hands-on conceptual model in an active learning … the use of a model within a lecture setting. The third uses an active learning approach along with the model. Student … model in an active learning environment show enhanced problem-solving skills over that which can be attained in a lecture …

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From war stories to case studies

DeSanto, Barbara - In: Journal of Communication Management 6 (2002) 1, pp. 64-69

Practitioners provide valuable resource for students through sharing their workplace experiences with them as guest lecturers in classrooms. Practitioners often take advantage of these opportunities to share real‐life situations and problems with students. This scenario, often called telling...

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Improving Assessment in University Economics

Walstad, William B. - In: Journal of Economic Education 32 (2001) 3, pp. 281-294

The author discusses the following seven issues affecting assessment of undergraduates in universities: decisionmaking and the selection of tests, the use of written and oral assignments to measure learning, the characteristics of grades and portfolios for evaluating students, opportunities for...

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Using activities in training and development

Rae, Leslie - 1999 - 2. ed.

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