THEEE are obvious differences between the students in high schools or academies, studying elementary economics, and the older students engaged in collegiate or university work, in both maturity and ...

Recent pedagogical research in economics has increasingly emphasised the use of experiments and media to transform traditional instruction methods. This innovative approach combines interactive ...

ECONOMISTS ARE keen fans of dynamism, but there are too few signs of it in economics teaching. A survey of American lecturers last year found that their methods, which rely on lectures and assigned ...

This article describes Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics, a Web-based portal that makes innovative pedagogic resources and effective teaching practices easily accessible to economists.

Teaching methods are the broader techniques used to help students achieve learning outcomes, while activities are the different ways of implementing these methods. Teaching methods help students: ...

University of Bristol professors, Sarah Smith OBE and Christian Spielmann, have been awarded for their work in designing and teaching an innovative undergraduate course on ‘Communicating Economics’.

Every year, the Department of Economics recognizes its most outstanding instructors and teaching assistants for the hard work they put forward for their students. This year's Lawrence Boland ...

Wendy Carlin explains how a new approach to economics education can help address pressing societal problems In the early 2010s, a widespread feeling that economics teaching was failing students ...