Projects and Funding

Teaching Resources in Undergraduate Economics: TRUE

Fourteen areas of the web site have been created to share open educational resources in specialist fields of economics at 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate level (years 3 and 4 in Scotland). Health Economics education already has its own sub-site.

Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning (FDTL5)

Four major HEFCE-funded projects for Economics:

• Embedding computer-based learning
• Embedding Threshold Concepts
• FEELE (online economic experiments)
• METAL (maths in economics resources)

Census of UK HE Economics

A comparative picture of the structure of Economics degrees and the teaching and assessment methods used across the UK

Distributed e-Learning

The JISC/Higher Education Academy DeL initiative has funded several projects related to eLearning in Economics.
We were also involved in the Summer 2007 JISC-funded CAMEL project to examine the benefits and weaknesses of e-learning.

Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs)

Some CETLs that have potential relevance to Economics