This article focuses on the relationship between university research (in this case science research) and national economic productivity, particularly in the context of the emerging knowledge economy. It addresses the question of whether university research output should be treated as a public good or a private good, in economic terms, and analyses…

This paper describes classroom experiments in cooperative behavior as examples of experiential learning in economics classes. Several games are briefly discussed and a new game in cartel behavior is presented. In this game, Students make production decisions as a cartel and earn revenues based on their own output decision and the output decision…

This article concludes the serialization of the Royal Statistical Society's Schools Lecture for 2004, on "Lies and statistics".

This article seeks to define simulation'' and games'' and finds that in the area of teacher education, instructional activities would be conducted in games while behavioral problems in the classroom deserve simulations. Five of the most common justifications for using situation gaming in teacher education are identified. (JA)

This bibliography contains books, articles and papers, bibliographies and directories, periodicals, newsletters and related readings on simulation and games at the college and university levels. (BB)

This article finds the minimum number of moves to order a deck of cards by placing them in suits, but not necessarily in order.

The authors present a constructivist approach for teaching game theory, on the basis, in part, of Axelrod's research approach. Using the Axelrod tournament multi-user system (ATMUS) software, students create strategies for a repeated prisoner's dilemma (RPD). Later, these strategies are matched with those of their classmates' in a classroom…

The paper's aim is to demonstrate the utility of the well-known Nim game when it is used as a tool in teaching the binary system. A way to increase student comprehension, it also forms a basis for student projects and extracurricular activities on the topic. The paper offers descriptions of two versions of the game and the underlying mathematical…

This article describes a graduate distance education course at North Carolina State University, which combined science content and pedagogy with video game design. The course was conducted entirely in a synchronous, online, Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) through the ActiveWorlds[TM] platform. Inservice teachers enrolled as graduate students in…