Increasing the Learning Efficiency in Decision-Making Field using the Workshop Activity in Moodle

Abstract

The decision-making field is one of the most critical fields in education for entrepreneurs. Students must adopt different concepts, methods, and tools that improve both - their analytic and intuitive decision making. One of the most used decision-making methods is the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Students must know how to recognize that a specific problem requires AHP analysis and to apply it correctly. This study presents the implementation of AHP education using the Workshop activity supported by the learning management system Moodle. In the first part of this activity, the students have to make a paper of AHP analysis of one real strategic or tactical problem related to any organization they choose: they have to structure the problem using the structuring methods, collect pairwise comparisons from decision-makers, calculate the group priorities and make the sensitivity analysis. In the second part of the activity, the students do peer assessment – they evaluate other students’ projects using the rubrics and qualitative assessment. The analysis reveals better results in understanding the AHP when compared to traditional ways of learning (direct assessment of papers by teachers without peer assessment). The different ways of learning are evaluated by comparing the points achieved for the AHP papers, points achieved for the AHP test, and using a short survey – all of them are implemented in Moodle as well.