Teaching economics to undergraduates :  alternatives to chalk and talk / 
edited by William E. Becker and Michael Watts. 
 - xvi, 274 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Figures and Tables --  Foreword --  Preface --  List of Contributors --  Teaching Economics: What Was, Is, and Could Be --  Active and Cooperative Learning --  Making Cooperative Learning Work in Economics Classes --  Gender and Active Learning --  Student Decision Making as Active Learning: Experimental Economics in the Classroom --  Writing, the Internet, and Discovery Through Sampling --  Integrating the Practice of Writing into Economics Instruction --  Using the Internet and Computer Technology to Teach Economics --  Using Monte Carlo Studies for Teaching Econometrics --  Examples from the World Around Us --  Using Sports to Teach Economics --  Using Literature and Drama in Undergraduate Economics Courses --  Acceptance Speeches by the Nobel Laureates in Economics --  Using Cases as an Effective Active Learning Technique --  Engaging Students in Quantitative Analysis with the Academic and Popular Press --  Index.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1858989728 9781858989723 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>98048149 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economics--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HB74.8.  / T4 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>330.071173