To game or not to game: teaching transportation planning with board games.
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To game or not to game: teaching transportation planning with board games.
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2012
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Transportation Research Board
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Traditional "chalk and talk" teaching in civil engineering has gradually been replaced with the idea of active learning focusing on encouraging students' knowledge discovery with innovative pedagogical methods and tools. One interesting tool is the board game. This research examines the efficacy of adopting transportation board games as a tool in graduate-level transportation planning and transportation economics classes at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Minnesota from 2008 to 2010. In these classes, a weekday night was scheduled for playing transportation board games. Students were asked to evaluate the effectiveness of the games on their learning and to write a self-reflective paper about their findings. The majority of the students reveal that their understanding of the planning process, network deployment, and practical issues, and and their ability to form opinion about transportation planning has been improved. Their summaries on the game economy and its implications on planning validate that their understanding obtained from this game process has met the pedagogical goals. Our analysis further shows that students who are moderately/highly visual, sensing, active, or sequential, all else equal, tend to learn more effectively through this approach than those who are not. Overall, this research suggests that properly incorporating board games into the curriculum can enhance students' learning process in transportation planning.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2307-15
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Huang, Arthur and Levinson, David (2012) To game or not to game: teaching transportation planning with board games. Transportation Research Record: Journal of Transportation Research Board 2307 141–149.
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Huang, Arthur; Levinson, David M. (2012). To game or not to game: teaching transportation planning with board games.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2307-15.
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