Teaching Resources for Undergraduate Economics (TRUE)
Teaching Resources for Undergraduate Economics (TRUE) is a set of sub-sites on which lecturers share teaching materials in specialist areas of Economics.
The project was set up with funding from the pilot phase of the HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resources programme which ran from 30 April 2009 to 30 April 2010. The pilot project was led by Professor Rebecca Taylor, Head of Economics at Nottingham Trent University and Associate Director of the Economics Network.
Core micro, macro and quants at all levels are relatively well provided for by textbooks and existing content on the web, but there has been much less open availability of resources in specialist areas. The TRUE project covers 14 such specialist areas, each led by a senior academic in that field. These are:
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Dr. Peter Smith, University of Southampton
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Professor Vincent Daly, Kingston University
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Professor Alan Collins, University of Portsmouth
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Professor Cillian Ryan, University of Birmingham
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Professor Dieter Balkenborg, University of Exeter
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Dr. Emma Frew and Professor Joanna Coast, Health Economics Unit, University of Birmingham
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Dr. Andy Denis, City University
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Professor Derek Braddon, University of West of England
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Professor David Paton, University of Nottingham
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Professor Monojit Chatterji, University of Dundee
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Professor Antony Dnes, University of Hull
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Professor Kent Matthews, Cardiff University
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Professor Rebecca Taylor, Nottingham Trent University
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CLREA group, University of Portsmouth (Jeff Grainger and Dave Clark)
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Professor Paul Fenn, University of Nottingham
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Each specialist leader is gathering and collating materials from colleagues in various universities. Resources can be any of the following:
- Syllabus details
- Reading lists
- Lecture slides
- Seminar/workshop materials
- Problem sets and worksheets
- Student handouts
- Assessment schemes
- Past assessments
- Module/unit handbooks
If you would like to contribute resources, please contact the specialist leader above.
TRUE materials that have a Creative Commons licence are listed in the JorumOpen repository. To see them all, search for "trueproject".
Intellectual property of contributed material remains with its present owners. As a condition of deposit, the project encourages the relicense of material as Creative Commons. There is scope for negotiations with individual rights holders, but the licence we prefer is Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial. This licence is compatible with Wikiversity and related projects. The Economics Network already has an advice sheet for content authors on why and how to license their materials.
A poster/leaflet advertising the project (20MB download) is available.
Full details of the project are contained in the project bid and the final report.
