11th Australasian Teaching Economics Conference: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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