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11th Australasian Teaching Economics Conference
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Monday 11 - Tuesday 12 July 2005
Hosted by the Discipline of Economics at The University of Sydney, Australia, this conference brought together researchers and practitioners with a shared interest in innovative teaching strategies to promote engaged student learning in economics. The conference theme encompassed, but was not limited to, the following areas as they pertain to teaching and learning in economics and related disciplines at the tertiary level:
Innovation in:
- Pedagogy
- Curriculum and program design
- Information and communications technology
- Scholarship of teaching and research-led teaching
- Assessment and evaluation
- International education
- Staff development
Student engagement through:
- Critical thinking
- Case-based learning
- Experiments and simulations
- Active and experiential learning
- Flexible, online, distance and blended learning
- Collaborative and peer-supported learning
Recent Submissions
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Securing participation: Experiments in a one-day introduction to economics
Published 2005-01-01Classroom experiments and exercises served as a one-day introduction to economics for students who felt insecure about taking first-year business classes. The first experiment addresses demand in isolation, while the second ...Open AccessConference paper -
An introduction to eRoadmapping: Providing learning paths for students and empowering teachers
Published 2005-01-01This paper reports on the development of an innovative teaching strategy: an eRoadmap. Based on the theory of conceptual mapping, the eRoadmap provides an interactive, hierarchical structure for course delivery, using the ...Open AccessConference paper -
Promoting interactive in-class learning environments: A comparison of an electronic response system with a traditional alternative
Published 2005-01-01Improved achievement and satisfaction arise when classes are made interactive (Hake 1998). Elliot (2003) reports positive results when an electronic response system is introduced in a microeconomics course, but recognises ...Open AccessConference paper -
Notes toward a simplified pedagogy of oligopoly theory
Published 2005-01-01The standard exposition of duopoly in most intermediate microeconomics texts relies heavily on simplifying assumptions of linearity, yet it remains algebraically somewhat dense. In this note, I outline an alternative ...Open AccessConference paper -
Introductory microeconomics students’ perceptions of the effectiveness of a collaborative learning method
Published 2005-01-01The paper analyses student perceptions of a collaborative learning method used in first-year microeconomics tutorials at Flinders University. Questionnaire responses indicate that a clear majority of students saw social, ...Open AccessConference paper