11th Australasian Teaching Economics Conference

 

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

  • Notes toward a simplified pedagogy of oligopoly theory 

    Cheung, Stephen L.
    Published 2005-01-01
    The 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 ...
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  • Lessons to be learned from using Gertner’s game of Cournot oligopoly in the classroom 

    Voola, Jo; Giles, Margaret
    Published 2005-01-01
    Since the early 1990s, economics departments at Australian universities have become increasingly concerned with falling undergraduate enrolments. This follows concerns by students regarding the relevance of economics courses ...
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  • The double paradox of elementary economics education 

    Pol, Eduardo; Carroll, Peter
    Published 2005-01-01
    Elementary economics textbooks have become less attractive to students requiring only an introduction to economics, given that their content is pervaded by mathematical diagrams and simple equations. Also they are of ...
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  • Securing participation: Experiments in a one-day introduction to economics 

    Geller, Chris
    Published 2005-01-01
    Classroom 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 ...
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  • Economics students’ perceptions of their learning context 

    Tang, Tommy; Robinson, Tim
    Published 2005-01-01
    Since the late 1960s, economics educators have carried out many research studies designed to explain variations in learning outcomes in economics. Most of these have utilised the input-output approach. Underpinning this ...
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