2009 Oct 06    

Wharton's Ethan Mollick on How Games can be Effective Learning Tools

Wharton assistant professor of management Ethan Mollick talks about how games can be effective learning tools in an article in the Baltimore Sun:

"Think about what games can do that you really can't do otherwise," says Ethan Mollick, an assistant professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. "Even in a personal finance class you don't get the chance to experiment, to be in the shoes of someone trying to solve problems. Games allow you to have the first-person experience."

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