{"id":3552,"date":"2013-06-08T13:46:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T19:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:56:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:56:49","slug":"cheating-to-learn-how-a-ucla-professor-gamed-a-game-theory-midterm-which-way-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/06\/08\/cheating-to-learn-how-a-ucla-professor-gamed-a-game-theory-midterm-which-way-l-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheating to Learn: How a UCLA professor gamed a game theory midterm | Which Way L.A.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kcrw.com\/whichwayla\/2013\/04\/cheating-to-learn-how-a-ucla-professor-gamed-a-game-theory-midterm\">Cheating to Learn: How a UCLA professor gamed a game theory midterm | Which Way L.A.?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the end, the students learned what social insects like ants and termites have known for hundreds of millions of years. To win at some games, cooperation is better than competition.\u00a0 Unity that arises through a diversity of opinion is stronger than any solitary competitor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, many, if not most of the exams I&#8217;ve seen aren&#8217;t nearly interesting or challenging enough for an approach like this to even make sense.<\/p>\n<p>In order for this to work, you need to have some interesting and challenging questions.<\/p>\n<p>You also need to know your subject matter fairly well.<\/p>\n<div id=\"nuan_ria_plugin\"><object id=\"plugin0\" style=\"position: absolute; z-index: 1000;\" type=\"application\/x-dgnria\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\"><param name=\"tabId\" value=\"undefined\" \/><param name=\"counter\" value=\"482\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-3552'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3552);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3552);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(3552);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Cheating to Learn: How a UCLA professor gamed a game theory midterm | Which Way L.A.?. In the end, the students learned what social insects like ants and termites have known for hundreds of millions of years. To win at &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/06\/08\/cheating-to-learn-how-a-ucla-professor-gamed-a-game-theory-midterm-which-way-l-a\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,12,14,24],"tags":[388,144,247,41,393],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-games","category-general","category-teaching-learning","tag-academia","tag-assessment","tag-cheating","tag-education","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-Vi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6686,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2017\/10\/19\/smart-watches-in-exams-why-not\/","url_meta":{"origin":3552,"position":0},"title":"Smart Watches in Exams? 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It turns out that THAT is one of the most profound outcomes of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/imageserver\/image\/methode%2Fsundaytimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fff6373f0-0ea4-11e8-b553-b6f31437c43b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/imageserver\/image\/methode%2Fsundaytimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fff6373f0-0ea4-11e8-b553-b6f31437c43b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/imageserver\/image\/methode%2Fsundaytimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fff6373f0-0ea4-11e8-b553-b6f31437c43b.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4801,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/06\/19\/games-vs-game-based-learning-vs-gamification\/","url_meta":{"origin":3552,"position":4},"title":"Games vs Game-based Learning vs Gamification","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"June 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"So many people are confused about the differences between these terms. 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Hmmmm, I say. I decided to make my learning experience public because I thought it might be interesting to try \"learning out in the open\". 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