Browsing 11th Australasian Teaching Economics Conference by publication year
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Lessons to be learned from using Gertner’s game of Cournot oligopoly in the classroom
Published 2005-01-01Since 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 ...Open AccessConference paper -
The double paradox of elementary economics education
Published 2005-01-01Elementary 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 ...Open AccessConference paper -
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 -
Teaching political economy: Curriculum and pedagogy
Published 2005-01-01The teaching of political economy offers an alternative, and a challenge, to conventional economics education. Its emphasis on the competing currents of economic thought, and their association with rival political philosophies, ...Open AccessConference paper -
Economics students’ perceptions of their learning context
Published 2005-01-01Since 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 ...Open AccessConference paper -
Approaches to economics education
Published 2005-01-01In these pages we argue that economics has much to learn from recent advances in knowledge of how students approach learning. If we influence how students approach learning we can increase their conceptual growth and change. ...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 -
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 -
Multimodal design for hybrid learning materials in a second-level economics course
Published 2005-01-01In 2003 the University of Southern Queensland announced that, owing to cost and demand pressures, student learning materials would be progressively migrated to a ‘hybrid’ model, the centrepiece of which was to be a ...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 -
Cheap, dirty (and effective) in-class experiments
Published 2005-01-01This paper describes a series of five in-class experiments run in a third-year industrial organisation course. A description is given of how these experiments can be run informally in a classroom without computers, while ...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