11th Australasian Teaching Economics Conference: 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