AEA session on teaching

Mark Maier (mmaier@glendale.cc.ca.us)
Tue, 01 Dec 1998 13:36:51 -0800

Tch-Econers,

If you are attending the NYC ASSA meetings please look in at a session on teaching techniques that will include presentations by several contributors to this list.  It will be a poster session called Teaching Techniques That Promote Active Learning. Unlike nearly every other ASSA session--but much more like sessions at natural science meetings--there will be a dozen simultaneous posters presentations in the room. We'll circulate, look at the posters, and talk with presenters rather than listen to sequential papers.

The time is:  January 4 at 2:30 PM. Room to be announced in the regular program.

Presenters are:
1.  "Online experiments in principles of economics" Marcelo Clerici-Arias, Stanford University
2.  "The Island Economy," Robert Francis, Shoreline Community College
3.   "Microeconomic Coupons," Rick Fenner, Utica College
4.  "Interactive use of computers in the classroom," E.B. Gendel, Woodbury University
5.  "Video Instruction in Principles of Microeconomics," Frank Maddox, Emory University
6.  "The Jigsaw Reading,"  Victor Matheson, Lake Forest College
7.   "Group Skit Activity in Introductory Economics,"  Robby Moore, Occidental College
8.  "Thinking Like an Economist: Using a conceptual matrix to organize a course in the history of economic thought,"  Dean Peterson and John Bean, Seattle University
9.  "Multimedia and Economics," Robert Rycroft, Mary Washington College
10.  "Promoting Active-Student Learning Using the World Wide Web in Economics Courses," Scott Simkins, North Carolina A&T State University
11. "Efficacy of a writing-intensive laboratory course," Wendell Sweetser, Marshall University
12.  "Connecting the Dots: Teaching the Steps of Policy Analysis through In-Class Exercises and Visual Maps," Brian Zikmund-Fisher, Carnegie Mellon University



                                       


Mark H. Maier
Department of Economics
Glendale College
Glendale, CA 91208

818-240-1000 Ext. 5468
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