A case study on using prediction markets as a rich environment for active learning

Computers and Education

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 418-428

  Buckley, Patrick ^a   Garvey, John ^a   McGrath, Fergal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Distributed learning environments; Evaluation of CAL systems; Interactive learning environments; Multimedia hypermedia systems; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; EVALUATION OF CAL SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; MULTIMEDIA/HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGY;

COMMERCE; FORECASTING; TEACHING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78149471191     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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