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Teaching economics to undergraduates : alternatives to chalk and talk

Author: William E Becker; Michael W Watts
Publisher: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : E. Elgar, ©1998.
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This book demonstrates alternatives to the lecture and chalkboard approach that dominates the teaching of economics, providing a range of innovative teaching techniques and examples aimed at engaging undergraduates in the learning of economics. This book will be of great practical value to teachers of economics as well as to administrators responsible for undergraduate instruction.
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Teaching economics to undergraduates.
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : E. Elgar, c1998
(OCoLC)607068685
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William E Becker; Michael W Watts
ISBN: 184064270X 1858989728 9781858989723 9781840642704 184064270X
OCLC Number: 40159060
Description: xvi, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Teaching economics / William E. Becker and Michael Watts --
Making cooperative learning work in economics classes / Robin L. Bartlett --
Gender and active learning / Maureen J. Lage and Michael Traglia --
Student decision making as active learning / Charles Noussair and James Walker --
Integrating the practice of writing into economics instruction / W. Lee Hansen --
Using the internet and computer technology to teach economics / Kim Sosin --
Using Monte Carlo studies for teaching econometrics / Peter Kennedy --
Using sports to teach economics / John J. Siegfried and Allen R. Sanderson --
Acceptance speeches by the Nobel laureates in economics / William J. Zahka --
Using cases as an effective active learning technique / Stephen Buckles --
Engaging students in quantitative analysis with the academic and popular press / William E. Becker.
Responsibility: edited by William E. Becker and Michael Watts.

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Alternatives to the lectures-and-chalkboard approach that dominates the teaching of economics are given here in a wide range of learning styles aimed at undergraduates.  Read more...

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