LEARNING ABOUT ECONOMIC VALUATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT USING ONLINE SIMULATIONSTiho Ancev
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While e-learning has been widely adopted in the tertiary education throughout the world, its use has been limited mainly to content delivery. Many of the possibilities to use e-learning to promote a ‘deep learning’, student-centred approach have been left unexploited. This paper reports on the use of an online simulation designed to promote these learning approaches and to attain higher level learning outcomes. The context is within an environmental economics upper-level undergraduate class at The University of Sydney, Australia. The learning task is to do with the effects of alternative willingness-to-pay (WTP) question formats on the elicited responses and the mean WTP estimates from a non-market economic method for valuation of an environmental asset. Students were asked to fill online surveys that corresponded to four different formats of the WTP question. The results from the survey were fed back to students online. To control for attainment of learning outcomes, a quiz was administered both pre- and post-survey. The results indicate that this online simulation enabled students to achieve higher level of thinking and comprehending, and has somewhat improved measurable learning outcomes. |
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