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Eckalbar, John C. – Journal of Economic Education, 2002
Illustrates how principles and intermediate microeconomic students can gain an understanding for strategic price setting by playing a relatively large oligopoly game. Explains that the game extends to a continuous price space and outlines appropriate applications. Offers the Mathematica code to instructors so that the assumptions of the game can…
Descriptors: Economics, Economics Education, Game Theory, Higher Education
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Cromley, Robert G. – Journal of Geography, 1980
Describes a simulation, "The Isolated Estate," which introduces geography students to the Von Thonen model and game theory. The objective of the game is to make textbook concepts more realistic. Concepts illustrated through the game include agricultural land use, economic rent, competetive bidding, inequities associated with differential incomes,…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Educational Games, Game Theory, Geography
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Langton, N. H.; And Others – European Journal of Education, 1980
The potential role of games and simulation in science teaching is explained, and some exercises are described. The possible future role of the microcomputer and its use with simulation in distance learning are explored. (MSE)
Descriptors: Game Theory, Higher Education, Microcomputers, Science Curriculum
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Dickinson, David L. – Journal of Economic Education, 2002
Employs a classroom version of the research game, the Ultimatum Game, to teach undergraduate students how fairness affects behavior. Focuses on three concepts related to fairness. Finds that classroom results motivate discussion about a downward sloping demand curve for fairness. Provides an appendix that includes instructional materials. (JEH)
Descriptors: Behavior, Economics Education, Game Theory, Higher Education
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Ortmann, Andreas – Journal of Economic Education, 2003
Presents a brief classroom demonstration illustrating Bertrand price undercutting by outlining the experiment, discussing the game theory solution and experiences, and presenting related literatures. States that students remember the lesson because of the significant amounts of money each could have earned. (JEH)
Descriptors: Demonstrations (Educational), Economics, Economics Education, Game Theory
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Bodo, Peter – Journal of Economic Education, 2002
Developed a simple computer program for the in-class simulation of the repeated prisoner's dilemma game with student-designed strategies. Describes the basic features of the software. Presents two examples using the program to teach the problems of cooperation among profit-maximizing agents. (JEH)
Descriptors: College Students, Economics, Economics Education, Game Theory
Allen, Richard K. – 1974
In an attempt to discover improved classroom teaching methods, a class was turned into a business organization as a way of bringing life to the previously covered lectures and textual materials. The simulated games were an attempt to get people to work toward a common goal with all of the power plays, secret meetings, brainstorming, anger, and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Organization, Game Theory
Kell, Carl L.; Winn, Larry James – 1976
In public-speaking courses, the use of games--a specific type of simulation--can help to overcome three of the most basic problems faced by the teacher: the gap between the study of theory and the application of that theory, the limited experience gained by students confined to speaking situations within classroom walls, and student stage fright.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Skills, Educational Games, Game Theory
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Faherty, Vincent E. – Journal of Education for Social Work, 1983
The potential for use of simulation and game theory in social work education to make problem solving more real and to supplement experience in analysis is examined. Simulation models, materials, methods, and topics are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Development, Evaluative Thinking, Game Theory
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Giraud, Kelly L.; Herrmann, Mark – Journal of Economic Education, 2002
Describes a renewable resource allocation game designed to stimulate student interest in and understanding of market failure associated with open-access types of resource use. Employs the game to discuss advantages and disadvantages of property rights and regulation schemes. States the game benefits noneconomics majors in natural resource…
Descriptors: College Students, Economics, Economics Education, Fisheries
Parks, Arlie Muller – 1975
The game design procedure outlined in this article assures the designer of an educational game which will help students to learn the material stated in the game's objectives and will provide the teacher with a means of testing the student's ability to meet those objectives. Steps involved in the design are: determining the behavioral objective or…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Games, Educational Strategies
Turney, Michael L. – 1973
This dissertation explores the teaching/learning application which simulation-gaming has to offer journalism/mass communication educators. It proposes eight uses to which journalism/mass communication educators can put simulation-games and develops a series of generating principles, based on a broad concept of mass communication, which are…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication (Thought Transfer), Doctoral Dissertations, Game Theory
Armstrong, R. H. R., Ed.; Taylor, John L.
The two major purposes of this book are to be an introduction to the development of instructional simulation systems in higher education and to provide a useful compendium of experimental simulation experience for those wishing to consider and utilize these and related techniques at the university level. Each paper attempts either to present a…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Games, Game Theory, Games
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Dunning, Jeremy; Bhattacharya, Sunand; Daniels, David; Dunning, Katherine – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
Science and technology, when applied to educational excellence, have become part of the arts and humanities of tomorrow. The interactive multimedia technology tools available to educators today provide an opportunity to build into the distance or traditional course through learning objects, highly interactive experiential exercises that allow the…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Higher Education, Partnerships in Education
Hyman, Ronald T. – 1981
The use of simulation games is considered by which the college teacher addresses selected topics by having students engage in activities that approximate the realities of a social situation. Simulations offer a stimulus for examining theoretical models and their applicability to everyday social situations. The Prisoner's Dilemma is presented as an…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, College Instruction, Criminology
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