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Using Web-Based Collaborative Forecasting to Enhance Information Literacy and Disciplinary Knowledge
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Direct linkBuckley, 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
Buckley, Patrick; Garvey, John; McGrath, Fergal – Computers & Education, 2011
In this paper, prediction markets are presented as an innovative pedagogical tool which can be used to create a Rich Environment for Active Learning (REAL). Prediction markets are designed to make forecasts about specific future events by using a market mechanism to aggregate the information held by a large group of traders about that event into a…
Descriptors: Prediction, Active Learning, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods
