Tutors' Guides in Principles of Microeconomics
John Sloman, University of the West of England
This companion website for Economics, sixth edition supports the text book by John Sloman. It contains student resources to help those studying courses using this text and lecturer resources for those using this textbook to teach economics courses. Some of the lecturer resources require registration. Materials provided include case studies, lecture plans, animated models and workshop plans.
Staffordshire University. Institute for Education Policy Research
Embedding Threshold Concepts is a project of the Institute for Education Policy Research at Staffordshire University. It aimed "to improve students understanding in economics by developing first year undergraduates acquisition of threshold concepts" and applied to both students on specialist economics degrees and non-specialists, for instance those on business degrees. The site includes teaching materials, suggested student activities, working papers / readings and further information about the project.
Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University, Carl E Walsh, University of California, Santa Cruz
This is the support website for the 4th edition of Economics by Joseph E. Stiglitz, and Carl E. Walsh, produced by W.W. Norton publishing. The site contains instructors manuals, PowerPoint slides, a glossary of terms, images and testbanks, in .zip format for Windows and .sit for Macs. The site also offers course packs that can be used in the Blackboard VLE platform.
Simon Halliday, University of Cape Town, South Africa. School of Economics
Video of a presentation given by Simon Halliday on 9 September 2010 at the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Features material from Edward Tufte, Garr Reynolds, Larry Lessig and others in a discussion of presentation techniques, then proceeds to look at the use of music and music videos, film and technology in teaching. Also looks at some of the challenges that face a prospective teacher wishing to use technology in a country like South Africa and in a university like the University of Cape Town with large classes and high bandwidth costs.
Theodore Bergstrom, University of California at Santa Barbara, John H Miller, University of California at Santa Barbara
The instructor's manual for the textbook Experiments with Economic Principles: Microeconomics, 2nd Edition, by Bergstrom and Miller, is available for download here. There is a separate file including all the handouts needed for the experiments described in the book.
