Interactive Tutorials in Principles of Macroeconomics

Understand economics is a CD-ROM based interactive tutorial with an assessment module, produced by BPP Learning Media. There are lessons on each of microeconomics, macroeconomics and the business environment. The assessment module presents a randomly generated set of questions, and produces reports of student performance. The package is expected to take 20 hours to complete and is only available to subscribers.

Classic economic models is a set of economic models that run through a web browser, some of which are available as free trials. The models are divided into micro and macro models, covering topics such as perfect competition, Keynsian models, price discrimination and utility-based valuation of risk. The models take the form of model link files which can be read by the EconModel plug-in. Access to the non-free models requires an annual subscription, currently 20 USD for a year. Most of the models have exercise sheets in PDF suitable for printing.

This website supports the 3rd edition of Economics by Joseph Stiglitz and Carl Walsh. It contains a vast array of freely available teaching and learning materials for each chapter of the book - including mini lectures, interactive tutorials, quizzes and even crossword puzzles. The site requires that you have the Macromedia Flash plugin for your browser.

This EconWeb: Introduction to macroeconomics samples is part of the EconWeb service that requires a paid subscription, but via this link you can find three sample modules that are freely available. the modules are "Supply and Demand", "The Output Multiplier" and "Monetarism". Each module includes lecture notes and a quiz based on US data, with some modules including PowerPoint slides.

From the companion site to Mankiw's macro textbook, this is a set of visually appealing interactive models that can be run in a web browser or can be downloaded to run on a PC offline. Individual models are selected from a navigation bar on the left and there is a page of explanatory text with each one. The models include "The Life-Cycle Model of Consumption", "The Solow Growth Model", "Equilibrium and the Interest Rate" and "Deriving the IS and LM Curves".

Thinkwell is a commercial learning tutorial service that supports economics, microeconomics and macroeconomics courses. It consists of video lectures that give simultaneous views of the lecturer and his slides and animations. Online interactive exercises with feedback, review notes, course management tools and a dedicated website for users. Lecturers can customise the course and view the results of interactive tests taken by their students. The materials are available online via subscription and require Flash / QuickTime / Java to load.

WinEcon is an interactive learning software package for economics, business economics, maths for economics and the range of Sloman textbooks designed to support economics courses. The software provides many hours of tutorial material and includes: all the relevant theory, interactive exercises, self-assessment questions, economics databases and an economic glossary. Teachers of economics can integrate WinEcon into their Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) by creating links from any Web page, Word, Powerpoint or Excel document to specific WinEcon topics. Students working on their own machines can also make full use of these features to link to specific WinEcon screens from their lecturer's Web pages by installing the single user software.