The usefulness of the three approaches described in the article depends on what the introductory course is trying to accomplish. One professor taught the subject through a steady diet of mathematical ...

Since fall 2016, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has welcomed 51 new colleagues to the ladder faculty. The incoming cohort comprises 17 new hires each for the divisions of the humanities, the social ...

This post is by S. Abu Rizvi, a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. An economist and former Honors College dean at the University of Vermont, he will be joining Lafayette ...

Having taught economics at a number of colleges for a number of years, I especially welcomed a feature article in the June 22 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, on how economics courses with ...

Having taught economics at a number of colleges for a number of years, I especially welcomed a feature article in the June 22 issue of “The Chronicle of Higher Education,” on how economics courses ...

Recent pedagogical research in economics has increasingly emphasised the use of experiments and media to transform traditional instruction methods. This innovative approach combines interactive ...

Kathryn Bender, assistant professor of economics in the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, was teaching her Introduction to Microeconomics class in early October ...

ECONOMISTS ARE keen fans of dynamism, but there are too few signs of it in economics teaching. A survey of American lecturers last year found that their methods, which rely on lectures and assigned ...

THEEE are obvious differences between the students in high schools or academies, studying elementary economics, and the older students engaged in collegiate or university work, in both maturity and ...

The point of this single web page is to be a one-stop shop. The links below point to the various ways that I use or have used Excel to teach Economics, including my summer Excel teaching workshop. My ...