| Building |
Merchant Venturers Building
|
Wills Building |
| Room |
1.11
|
Common Room
|
3.30
|
3.32
|
3.33
|
|
10.00 onwards
|
Registration
and refreshments - Merchant Venturers Building
|
10.30 – 11.45
|
Keynote (room 1.11)– Evan Davis (Economics Editor, BBC)
Keynote (room 1.11)– Paul Ormerod (Director, Volterra Consulting)
|
|
|
Paper sessions
|
| 11.50 – 12.30 |
Using topical issues to teach
introductory and development economics
John Birchall (Bishops Stortford College)
|
Knowledge acquisition &
management in e-learning environments
Susan
Geertshuis (Northampton Business School)
|
Teaching maths to economists: overcoming student diversity in understanding and enthusiasm for mathematical techniques
Valentina
Desnitskaia (St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, Russia)
|
Effective teaching and learning:
a business education focus
Anne Abraham
(University of Woolongong, Australia)
|
Teaching and learning through
the use of case studies
Guglielmo Volpe (University of North London)
|
| 12.30 – 13.40
|
Buffet
Lunch & Exhibition – Merchant Venturers Building
|
| 13.40 – 14.15
|
Keynote (room 1.11)– Peter Day (Business Correspondent, BBC)
|
| Building |
Merchant Venturers Building
|
Wills Building |
| Room |
1.11
|
Common Room
|
3.30
|
3.32
|
3.33
|
|
|
Workshops
|
| 14.15 – 15.15
|
Effective learning in larger classes
John Sloman (Economics LTSN)
|
Making Introductory Economics fun
John Troy and Fran Alston (Napier University)
|
Using business case studies
Charles Booth (Bristol Business School, UWE)
|
Role playing, games and simulation in Economics
Mark Sutcliffe (University of the West of England)
|
An introduction to problem-based learning in economics and business
Ranald MacDonald (Sheffield Hallam University)
|
| 15.15 – 15.45
|
Refreshments and Exhibition – Merchant Venturers Building
|
| 15.45 – 16.45
|
Assessment without drowning
John Sloman (Economics LTSN)
|
Active learning through the use of
experiments and games
Mary Hedges
(Auckland University of Technology)
|
Embedding key skills in Schools and FE economics and
business
Chris Vidler (BEC)
|
Embedding key skills in HE economics
Maureen Mackintosh, Open University
|
Workshop continued
|
| 16.50 – 17.40
|
Experiences session – higher education
|
Experiences session – schools/further education
|
Meeting of LTSN Hubs (Old Council Chamber)
|
| 17.40
|
Finish |
| Building |
Merchant Venturers Building
|
Wills Building |
| Room |
1.07
|
1.08
|
3.30
|
3.32
|
3.33
|
| 09.00 onwards |
Registration and refreshments - Merchant Venturers Building
|
| 09.30 – 10.30
|
Keynote (room 1.11)- Bill Goffe (State University of New York, OSWEGO) and Bob Parks (Washington University in St. Louis)
|
| 10.30 – 11.00 |
Refreshments and Exhibition - Merchant Venturers Building
|
| 11.00 – 11.40
|
Hands-on Computer Workshops
|
Paper sessions
|
Steer the Economy: an intermediate macroeconomics simulation
Geert Woltjer (Universiteit Maastricht)
|
Creating interactive online learning and
assessment materials
Andy Beharrell,
Kieren Pitts, Andrew Ramsden (Biz/ed)
|
Incorporating data skills in
teaching programmes – the TimeWeb project
Andy Hargrave (Biz/ed)
|
Streaming video in introductory economics
William Garrison (University of Portsmouth)
|
Using the game Monopoly to introduce
financial accounting and to develop students' skills
Peter Pierpoint (University of Plymouth)
|
| 11.50 – 12.30
|
Out of the labs and onto the laptops. Moving from static to dynamic learning
environments: some
issues of pedagogy and economics.
Guy Judge (University of Portsmouth)
|
Using the Web for first-year HE students
John Sloman and Mark Sutcliffe (University of the West of England)
|
Using the Web in teaching A-level economics
Geoff Riley (Tutor2U; Eton College)
|
| 12.30 – 13.45
|
Buffet Lunch and Exhibition – Merchant Venturers Building
|
| Building |
Merchant Venturers Building
|
Wills Building |
| Room |
1.07
|
1.08
|
3.30
|
3.32
|
3.33
|
| 13.45 – 14.25
|
Creating spreadsheet models for
use in teaching
Stephen Trotter
and Susan Palfreman (University of Hull)
|
Use of Virtual Learning
Environments
Ros O’Leary and
Paul Bailey
(LTSS, ILRT,
University of Bristol)
|
Using games in intermediate
macroeconomics
Geert Woltjer
(Universiteit Maastricht)
|
Online simulations – the Virtual
Learning Arcade
Andrew Ramsden
(Biz/ed)
|
Nuffield Economics and Business,
IT resources
Nancy Wall
(Nuffield Economics and Business Project)
|
| 14.35 – 15.15
|
Using the Virtual Economy in
teaching and learning
Mark Sutcliffe
(UWE) and Andy Beharrell (Bized)
|
Designing on-line feedback in
learning materials
Ken Moore
(Sheffield Hallam University)
|
Net efficiency: Internet
information skills for economists and business managers
Martin Poulter, Chris Mitchell (Economics LTSN)
|
| 15.15 – 15.30
|
Refreshments and Exhibition - Merchant Venturers Building
|
| 15.30 – 16.15
|
Closing discussion (room 1.11)
|
| 16.15
|
Finish
|
