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Neriz, Liliana; Núñez, Alicia; Fuentes-Caceres, Veronica; Ramis, Francisco; Jerez, Oscar – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2020
Nowadays the business world is characterized by vertiginous changes making work environments more complex and uncertain. This scenario requires professionals with practical experience. While students and new graduates often gain practical experience through internships or part-time jobs, universities can play an active role in developing the…
Descriptors: Simulation, Active Learning, Training Methods, Business Administration Education
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McDaniel, Mark A.; Fadler, Cynthia L.; Pashler, Harold – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
A robust finding in the literature is that spacing material leads to better retention than massing; however, the benefit of spacing for concept learning is less clear. When items are massed, it may help the learner to discover the relationship between instances, leading to better abstraction of the underlying concept. Two experiments addressed…
Descriptors: Intervals, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Task Analysis
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Linde, Lena; Bergstrom, Monica – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1988
The importance of prior knowledge of informational content and organization for search performance on a database was evaluated for 17 undergraduates. Pretraining related to content, and information did facilitate learning logical search principles in a relational database; contest pretraining was more efficient. (SLD)
Descriptors: Databases, Learning Processes, Online Searching, Prior Learning
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Quinonez, Ruben; Ryan, Terry; Olfman, Lorne – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2007
This study attempts to reconcile viewpoints on the role of errors in the design of computer-based training (CBT) systems. From one perspective, errors are detrimental to learning; from another, they can be beneficial. The results of an experiment are presented and discussed. When a CBT system is designed to allow learners to correct their own…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Learning Theories, Instructional Design