Economics eLearning Symposium
When
Thursday 9 September 2010
Where
Merchant Venturers Building, University of Bristol.
Additional maps and up to date travel information is available from the Greening Events project.
This event is supported by the TRUE project.
What
This event presented a range of the latest technologies suitable for supporting economics teaching and research.
Speakers
- Martin Poulter, The Economics Network / TRUE / DeSTRESS
"Bringing Remix Culture to Economics" - Paul Latreille, Swansea University
"Tweaching for Economists" - Guglielmo Volpe, Queen Mary, University of London
"Social Bookmarking" - Phil Wane, Nottingham Trent University
"Video and Audio" - Paul Shabajee and Phil Cross, Greening Events project
- Gervas Huxley and Doug Hamilton, University of Bristol
"Using Smartboards to Teach Economics" - Edmund Cannon, University of Bristol
"Using Blackboard" - Alvin Birdi, University of Bristol
"Using AcroTeX in Economics" - David Allen, University of the West of England
"Teaching the Banking Crisis with an Excel Simulation"
Photo Gallery
2008 Symposium
The 2008 E-learning Symposium took place on Tuesday 8th September.
Speakers
- David Allen, University of the West of England
- Paul Ayres, Intute Social Sciences
- Edmund Cannon, University of Bristol
- Kevin Hinde, Durham University
- Paul Latreille, Swansea University
- David McCausland, University of Aberdeen
- Denis McGrath, University of Westminster
- Martin Poulter, The Economics Network
- Bhagesh Sachania, The Economics Network
- Richard Tutin, University of Bristol
- Sharon Waller, Academy/JISC Collaboration Team
Materials
Links related to the event, stored on the social bookmarking site Delicious.com, added mainly by Paul Ayres.
Slides from Paul Ayres' presentation:
Economics 2.0 from cfbloke
The 2008 event was sponsored by the Academy/JISC Collaboration Initiative. To find out more about the initiative visit the Academy and JISC collaboration webpages.
