EconEdTech

A wonderful story for intro econ - can be used for shifts vs. movements, consumer and producer surplus, rent seeking behavior. Will try to develop a case around this for my class. If I do will share.

MERLOT is a free and open peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed services contributed and used by an international education community.

A great comedy bit that points out just how amazing technological progress is and how much we take for granted.

This compilation of forty-five case studies documents disparate experiences among economies in addressing the challenges of participating in the WTO. It demonstrates that success or failure is strongly influenced by how governments and private-sector stakeholders organize themselves at home. The contributors, mainly from developing countries, give examples of participation with lessons for others.

AEI One pager on her work

The table below lists all indicators displayed in Gapminder World. Click the name of the indicator or the data provider to access information about the indicator and a link to the data provider.

An online education portal for economics. Currently has video clips and links to other resources on the web. Some videos on basic concepts like "Comparative Advantage and the Tragedy of Tasmania".

Topics covered in a traditional college level introductory macroeconomics course

Videos of a selection of topics covered in an introductory microeconomics course

This Free Principles of Economics text written collaboratively by a team of economics professors covers the scope and sequence for a two-semester principles of economics course. The text also includes many current examples, including; discussions on the great recession, the controversy among economists over the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), the recent government shutdown, and the appointment of the United States' first female Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen. The pedagogical choices, chapter arrangements, and learning objective fulfillment were developed and vetted with feedback from educators dedicated to the project. The outcome is a balanced approach to micro and macro economics, to both Keynesian and classical views, and to the theory and application of economics concepts. Current events are treated in a politically-balanced way, as well.

We took all 862 videos from four edX courses offered in Fall 2012 and hand-classified each one based on its type (e.g., traditional lecture, problem-solving tutorial) and production style (e.g., PowerPoint slides, Khan-style tablet drawing, talking head). We automatically extracted other features such as length and speaking rate (words per minute). We then mined the edX server logs to obtain over 6.9 million video watching sessions from almost 128,000 students. To our knowledge, this is the largest-scale study of video engagement to date. Here's what we found and a couple recommendations: