Learner Responsibility in Management Education, or Ventures into Forbidden Research (with Comments)

J. Scott Armstrong ()

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Abstract: Formal education can be improved by transferring responsibility from the teacher to the learner. A simple approach to this is the time contract. Time contracts have been used successfully in nine quasi-experiments but, despite these successes, some educators see this as subversive research.

Keywords: learning; universities; teachers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2005-02-04
Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 11
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