Sunday, October 28, 2007

Teaching Economics Interactively: A Cannibal's Dinner Party

"This paper describes techniques that I use to teach economics principles "interactively". These techniques include classroom experiments and classroom clickers. The paper describes an experiment on market entry and gives examples of applications of classroom clickers. Clicker applications include the collection data about student preferences that can be used to construct demand curves and supply curves. Check on students' knowledge of central concepts. Play interactive games that illustrate economic concepts." Source: Ted C. Bergstrom, (October 26, 2007). Department of Economics, UCSB.

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