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Using Web-Based Collaborative Forecasting to Enhance Information Literacy and Disciplinary Knowledge
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Buckley, Patrick; Doyle, Elaine – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
This paper outlines how an existing collaborative forecasting tool called a prediction market (PM) can be integrated into an educational context to enhance information literacy skills and cognitive disciplinary knowledge. The paper makes a number of original contributions. First, it describes how this tool can be packaged as a pedagogical…
Descriptors: Prediction, Information Literacy, Information Skills, Decision Support Systems
A Critical Analysis of Active Learning and an Alternative Pedagogical Framework for Introductory Information Systems Courses
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Drake, John R. – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2012
Active learning has been championed in academic circles as the pedagogical fix to boring lectures typically found in introduction to information systems courses. However, the literature on active learning is mixed. In this paper, we critically examine active learning research and discover a misplaced emphasis leading to paradoxical findings in…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Learning Theories, Class Activities, Course Objectives