Who Should Attend?
Who Should Attend?
Anyone interested in teaching economics at HE level (whether to economics or other students), especially:
- Lecturers in higher and further education
- Graduate teaching assistants
- Library and information staff
- Teaching support staff
- Staff developers
Full conference handbook
Thursday 2 September, 9am BST
Room 1, Marking and feedback
- Specialisation or total excellence: a study of of the UK and Continental Europe marking scales (Piotr Jaworski)
Room 2, Diverse students and curricula
- Breaking down the language barrier: using pop culture from across the globe to teach microeconomics (Wayne Geering and Jadrian Wooten) - slides
- Pluralism in teaching economics to post-graduate students: emancipation vs. “business as usual” (Kuat Akizhanov)
Room 3, Employability
- Work placement and graduate employment: new insights (Panagiotis Arsenis, Miguel Flores)
- The value of virtual internships as authentic assessment in developing the future generation of economists (Sara Gorgoni, Katherine Leopold)
Thursday 2 September, 10.10am BST
Room 1, Workshop: R-markdown for interactive learning
- Interactive Learning with R-Markdown and R-Shiny Apps: Statistics for Economics and Business (Pascal Stiefenhofer) - slides
Room 2, Workshop: Flipping
- ‘Catch you on the flip side’: Translating online learning into hybrid delivery (Paul Cowell) - slides & video on teaching with OneNote
Thursday 2 September, 11.30am BST
Room 1, Online teaching
- The effect of online education on the academic performance of students during COVID-19 pandemic (Saule Kemelbayeva, Arman Yelesh)
- Studying without distractions? The effect of a digital blackout on academic performance (Francesca Garbin)
- To block or not to block: Does teaching delivery method affect students’ performance and learning experience? (Erkal Ersoy, Morteza Haghighat) - slides
Room 2, Teaching technical subjects
- Embedding coding and project management skills into the economics curriculum - reflections from a Python for Economics course (Dimitra Petropoulou, Antonio Mele, Rahat Siddique) - slides
- What’s wrong with how we teach (and then practice) econometrics? What can we do about it? (Mark Schaffer, Arnab Bhattacharjee) - slides
Room 3, Financial literacy & socio-economic influences
- Acquiring actionable student feedback in real time through graded questionnaires (Tobias Amadeus Brevik)
- On the effectiveness of behavioural-based course materials to improve financial literacy and reduce the myopic bias in insurance and investment decisions (Francisco Pitthan, Kristof De Witte)
- A critical review of the socio/economic influences on attendance patterns within a H4 economics cohort (Chris Carbery)
Thursday 2 September, 2.10pm BST
Room 1, Workshop: Experiments
- Experiencing economics: Using experiments in teaching economics (Humberto Llavador) - slides
Room 2, Workshop: Simulations
Thursday 2 September, 3pm BST
Room 1, Student engagement
- Which learning resources do students perceive as most valuable and does usage contribute to student module success (Caroline Elliott, Lory Barile, Michael McCann) - slides
- Online lecture recordings during the Covid pandemic (Marion Prat, Edmund Cannon)
- Student engagement with online learning (Mike Reynolds) - slides
Room 2, Co-creation & collective learning
- The long-term behavioural implications of co-creation in economics education (Mario Pezzino, Karol Tolpa)
- Goal setting and implementation intentions to improve educational outcomes (Paul Cowell)
- Public feedback for collective learning (Isleide Zissimos) - slides
Room 3, Assessment & inclusion
- Negative marking, guessing and academic performance (Stefania Simion, Ghazala Azmat, Maia Guell)
- Do we have the right metrics to assess the ethnicity gaps in education? (Gabriella Cagliesi, Denise Hawkes) - slides
- Who addresses diversity, inclusion, and gender issues in undergraduate introductory economics in 2020? (Cynthia Harter, Carlos Asarta, Rebecca Chambers)
Friday 3 September, 9.10am BST
Room 1, Teaching with games
- Lego serious play for economics lessons (Prashan Karunaratne) - slides
- Mental wellbeing of first-year economics students: The effect of a game-based orientation day (Lize Vanderstraeten, Evelien Opdecam, Patricia Everaert) - slides
- The use of robotic players in online games (Matthew Olczak, Jon Guest, Robert Riegler) - slides
Room 2, Student performance & engagement
- The CORE pedagogy: is there a difference in student performance and engagement? (Martha Anyango Omolo)
- Exploring student study habits in a large, online, macroeconomics module in order to design effective interventions (Tad Gwiazdowski)
Room 3, Teaching online
- What do business students value in the emerging virtualisation of learning and teaching that is accelerated by COVID-19? A pilot (Lu Liu, Victoria Opara, Inna Pomorina, Anna Walker)
- ‘I have been kicked out of the class!’ COVID-19 move to webinars in higher education: a process evaluation (Rabeya Khatoon, Steven Proud) - slides
- Intimate, intimidating or interminable? Lecture chat culture versus live Q&A (Annika Johnson, Danielle Guizzo, Christian Spielmann)
Friday 3 September, 11.10am BST
Room 1, Workshop: Teaching with data
- Teaching using ‘Measuring the Economy’ (Georgia Tasker-Davies and Sumit Dey Chowdhury) - slides
Room 2, Economics education during the pandemic
- Economics Education in the Covid-19 Pandemic: what was done and what should be done? (Fabio Arico, Paul Latreille, Adam Cox, Paul Cowell) - slides
Friday 3 September, 12.00pm BST
Room 1, NSS & perceptions of economics education
- Analysing the determinants of student satisfaction in the NSS (Steven Proud, Guglielmo Volpe) - slides
- Attitudes towards Economic Education in Saudi Arabia (Sarah Najm)
Room 2, IREE Best paper presentation
- The economics instructor's toolbox (Julien Picault) - slides
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Who Should Attend?
Anyone interested in teaching economics at HE level (whether to economics or other students), especially:
- Lecturers in higher and further education
- Graduate teaching assistants
- Library and information staff
- Teaching support staff
- Staff developers