Journal article
Comparing Competitive and Cooperative Strategies for Learning Project Management
Journal of engineering education (Washington, D.C.), Vol.98(2), pp.181-192
04/2009
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2009.tb01016.x
Abstract
Many organizations use project management to organize and administer resources in time and in place in an effort to optimize costs and meet certain constraints. These constitute cognitive skills acquired through training and experience that have successfully been shown to be trainable through simulation. However, past research on simulation-based project management training focused on individual learning. In this paper, we are interested in investigating whether a competitive or cooperative strategy is more desirable in using simulators for project management training. Several theories suggest that cooperative learning is more beneficial to learning than competitive learning. To investigate this problem, an experiment was set up based on the simulationbased Project Management Trainer (PMT) software. The results suggest that using both PMT cooperative and competitive strategies yield learning in project management. However, cooperative strategies yield better results in the overall outcome.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Comparing Competitive and Cooperative Strategies for Learning Project Management
- Creators
- David Nembhard - Pennsylvania State UniversityKelly Yip - Pennsylvania State UniversityAvraham Shtub - Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of engineering education (Washington, D.C.), Vol.98(2), pp.181-192
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2009.tb01016.x
- ISSN
- 1069-4730
- eISSN
- 2168-9830
- Number of pages
- 12
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/2009
- Academic Unit
- Business Analytics; Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984187066702771
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