Conference sessions in Educational resources
Panel: Innovations in teaching CORE Econ
Panel at DEE 2023,- Extended abstract
- PowerPoint slides for Econframe presentation by Lavinia Moldovan and Ramin Nasshei
The use of social networks to implement a research-led curriculum
Presentation at DEE 2023,Using an online interactive textbook for content delivery in large quantitative units
Presentation at DEE 2023,How Diverse is Your Reading List? An Analysis of BSc Economics Curriculum
Presentation at DEE 2023,Improving Student Comprehension Through Interactive Model Visualization
Workshop at DEE 2023,Interactive Learning with R-Markdown and R-Shiny Apps: Statistics for Economics and Business
Workshop at DEE 2021,Doing economics: teaching data with CORE
Presentation at DEE 2019,This session provides an overview of Doing Economics, CORE's online resource for teaching data literacy skills, with particular emphasis on how to teach statistics and data handling to non-economists. The session will introduce the resource and discuss various ways in which it can and is being used to support active empirical work in classes.
Measuring the economy
Presentation at DEE 2019,The Office for National Statistics is creating an online book ‘Measuring the Economy’ for use by universities to support undergraduate and postgraduate economic statistics teaching. The book aims to convey the importance of best-practice, real-world economic measurement, and as such to support academics and students in understanding the issues surrounding the measurement of the modern economy. Chapters are being written by leading experts in their subject area, with the aim being to bring their knowledge and expertise together in a single output. Our aim is for the chapters to be standalone, so that they can be used a la carte while, also maintaining a common and coherent approach. We are looking to develop teaching resources for each chapter- case studies, exercises and test questions for example, once the chapter has been published in Beta. We wish to collaborate with teaching staff and members of the Economics Network to shape the project and ensure the final product is beneficial to the University community.
An online simulation about horizontal differentiation
Workshop at DEE 2017,This workshop will demonstrate a new online simulation about horizontal differentiation. Four teams participate to a 3D location and pricing Hotelling game (with quadratic transportation costs). In the complete game, they first simultaneously choose their location on a map before competing in price. In the last part of the game, players also decide whether or not to participate in the funding of a subway station, that would increase demand at the center of the map (hence increasing incentives to locate near the center). This pedagogic sequence is structured in a very progressive way. Players first play a tutorial to get into the game, in which they only have to make price decisions for a number of imposed locations (level design). Players are invited to change their decisions in order to highlight how they impact the outcomes (trial and error cycles). Our favored approach is to run the simulation before any lecture about differentiation. After the game has been played, debriefing allows to introduce tools and notions that would have helped students make their decisions, and are then more concrete. This is also a good opportunity to broaden the discussion to the use of models and to emulate IO research process (building a simple model --> confrontation with reality - discussion about the validity of the model --> building a more elaborate model --> etc). The game will be in free access on economics-games.com (it is still in beta test).
Little, big and vast steps towards open education
Presentation at DEE 2017,In September 2007, the open education movement promised a “global revolution” in learning and teaching. A decade on, the changes in academia may seem less than Earth-shattering, but the world of online discussion and informal learning has been transformed. Meanwhile, “open” movements have become more mainstream in other fields, such as open access and open data. This session looks at the present and future of open education and the implications for universities.
- Powerpoint slides from this presentation
- "Open Educational Resources in Economics" draft chapter in Handbook
