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Teaching economics to undergraduates : alternatives to chalk and talk / edited by William E. Becker and Michael Watts.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : E. Elgar, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: xvi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1858989728
  • 9781858989723
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.071173
LOC classification:
  • HB74.8. T4 1998
Contents:
Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- 1. Teaching Economics: What Was, Is, and Could Be -- Active and Cooperative Learning -- 2. Making Cooperative Learning Work in Economics Classes -- 3. Gender and Active Learning -- 4. Student Decision Making as Active Learning: Experimental Economics in the Classroom -- Writing, the Internet, and Discovery Through Sampling -- 5. Integrating the Practice of Writing into Economics Instruction -- 6. Using the Internet and Computer Technology to Teach Economics -- 7. Using Monte Carlo Studies for Teaching Econometrics -- Examples from the World Around Us -- 8. Using Sports to Teach Economics -- 9. Using Literature and Drama in Undergraduate Economics Courses -- 10. Acceptance Speeches by the Nobel Laureates in Economics -- 11. Using Cases as an Effective Active Learning Technique -- 12. Engaging Students in Quantitative Analysis with the Academic and Popular Press -- Index.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 330.071173 TEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A183369B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- 1. Teaching Economics: What Was, Is, and Could Be -- Active and Cooperative Learning -- 2. Making Cooperative Learning Work in Economics Classes -- 3. Gender and Active Learning -- 4. Student Decision Making as Active Learning: Experimental Economics in the Classroom -- Writing, the Internet, and Discovery Through Sampling -- 5. Integrating the Practice of Writing into Economics Instruction -- 6. Using the Internet and Computer Technology to Teach Economics -- 7. Using Monte Carlo Studies for Teaching Econometrics -- Examples from the World Around Us -- 8. Using Sports to Teach Economics -- 9. Using Literature and Drama in Undergraduate Economics Courses -- 10. Acceptance Speeches by the Nobel Laureates in Economics -- 11. Using Cases as an Effective Active Learning Technique -- 12. Engaging Students in Quantitative Analysis with the Academic and Popular Press -- Index.

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