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Teaching and learning in consumer behavior: a class activity supporting real decision-making in cultural management
2010
Abstract Problem-based learning has been suggested as a useful tool to foster student-centered learning and increase student motivation. Students of Business Administration are not familiar with Research on Consumer Behavior, its contents and techniques, since this subject is traditionally linked to Psychology. In order to facilitate the teaching-learning process in this subject, this paper presents an application of problem-based learning in the context of Consumer Behavior. Results of this pilot experience are assessed under a qualitative and a quantitative basis. The evidence obtained allow us to conclude that this collaboration project enable students to obtain and to process informatio…
Are there gender differences in e-learning use and assessment? Evidence from an interuniversity online project in Europe
2010
Abstract E-learning is characterized both by human-human interaction (between students, fellow students and teachers) and by human-machine interaction (between students and e-learning software) to support the learning process. Since several studies point out that men and women differ in their interaction with technology, we perform one-way and inter-individual factor ANOVA analyses to test the existence of significant differences in the assessment and use of e-learning activities by male and female students in the context of an online project between two European universities. As a result, there are few differences between male and female students in their use of e-learning and their motiva…