Evaluation of students' experiences of developing transferable skills and business skills using a business simulation game

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Begum, Marjahan ^a   Newman, Richard ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employability skills; Learning using simulation; Module evaluation; Transferable skills

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; BUSINESS SIMULATION; BUSINESS SKILLS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; HIGHER EDUCATION; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT; SIMULATION MODULES; TRANSFERABLE SKILLS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77951443740     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2009.5350482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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