Teaching Operations Research: Lessons from Cognitive Psychology

Judith S. Liebman
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Judith S. Liebman: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801

Interfaces, 1998, vol. 28, issue 2, 104-110

Abstract: Instructors increase their students' understanding and retention of knowledge by creating more opportunities for active learning. According to cognitive psychologists, instructors should design learning activities according to the type and difficulty of the specific knowledge to be learned. Ten cognitive strategies, related to three types of knowledge, can be used to generate active learning.

Keywords: professional; OR/MS education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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