Contents
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Curriculum and content
Breaking down the language barrier: using pop culture from across the globe to teach microeconomics
Presentation by Wayne Geerling and Jadrian Wooten
Pluralism in teaching economics to post-graduate students: emancipation vs. “business as usual”
Presentation by Kuat Akizhanov
Interactive Learning with R-Markdown and R-Shiny Apps: Statistics for Economics and Business
Workshop by Pascal Stiefenhofer
Embedding coding and project management skills into the economics curriculum - reflections from a Python for Economics course
Presentation by Dimitra Petropoulou, Antonio Mele, Rahat Siddique
What’s wrong with how we teach (and then practice) econometrics? What can we do about it?
Presentation by Mark Schaffer, Arnab Bhattacharjee
On the effectiveness of behavioural-based course materials to improve financial literacy and reduce the myopic bias in insurance and investment decisions
Presentation by Francisco Pitthan, Kristof De Witte
Storytelling with simulations: Interactive ideas for teaching economic models
Workshop by Eileen Tipoe
Teaching using ‘Measuring the Economy’
Workshop by Georgia Tasker-Davies, Sumit Dey Chowdhury
Online and distance learning
‘Catch you on the flip side’: Translating online learning into hybrid delivery
Workshop by Paul Cowell
- Extended abstract
- Slides
- Video on teaching with OneNote
The effect of online education on the academic performance of students during COVID-19 pandemic
Presentation by Saule Kemelbayeva, Arman Yelesh
Which learning resources do students perceive as most valuable and does usage contribute to student module success
Presentation by Caroline Elliott, Lory Barile, Michael McCann
Online lecture recordings during the Covid pandemic
Presentation by Marion Prat, Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol)
Exploring student study habits in a large, online, macroeconomics module in order to design effective interventions
Presentation by Tad Gwiazdowski
What do business students value in the emerging virtualisation of learning and teaching that is accelerated by COVID-19? A pilot
Presentation by Lu Liu, Victoria Opara, Inna Pomorina, Anna Walker
‘I have been kicked out of the class!’ COVID-19 move to webinars in higher education: a process evaluation
Presentation by Rabeya Khatoon & Steven Proud, University of Bristol
Intimate, intimidating or interminable? Lecture chat culture versus live Q&A
Presentation by Annika Johnson, Danielle Guizzo, Christian Spielmann
Economics Education in the Covid-19 Pandemic: what was done and what should be done?
Workshop by Fabio Arico, Paul Latreille, Adam Cox, Paul Cowell
Classroom practice and student engagement
Studying without distractions? The effect of a digital blackout on academic performance
Presentation by Francesca Garbin (Bocconi University)
To block or not to block: Does teaching delivery method affect students’ performance and learning experience?
Presentation by Erkal Ersoy, Morteza Haghighat
A critical review of the socio/economic influences on attendance patterns within a H4 economics cohort
Presentation by Chris Carbery
Goal setting and implementation intentions to improve educational outcomes
Presentation by Paul Cowell
The CORE pedagogy: is there a difference in student performance and engagement?
Presentation by Martha Anyango Omolo
IREE best paper presentation: The economics instructor's toolbox
Presentation by Julien Picault
Experiments, games and role-play
Experiencing economics: Using experiments in teaching economics
Workshop by Humberto Llavador
The use of robotic players in online games
Presentation by Matthew Olczak, Jon Guest, Robert Riegler
Internationalisation
Inclusivity and internationalisation
Who addresses diversity, inclusion, and gender issues in undergraduate introductory economics in 2020?
Presentation by Cynthia Harter, Carlos Asarta, Rebecca Chambers
Work placements
Work placement and graduate employment: new insights
Presentation by Panagiotis Arsenis, Miguel Flores
The value of virtual internships as authentic assessment in developing the future generation of economists
Presentation by Sara Gorgoni, Katherine Leopold
Marking and feedback
Specialisation or total excellence: a study of of the UK and Continental Europe marking scales
Presentation by Piotr Jaworski
Negative marking, guessing and academic performance
Presentation by Stefania Simion, Ghazala Azmat, Maia Guell
Attainment gaps
Do we have the right metrics to assess the ethnicity gaps in education?
Presentation by Gabriella Cagliesi, Denise Hawkes
Evaluation of teaching
Acquiring actionable student feedback in real time through graded questionnaires
Presentation by Tobias Amadeus Brevik
Student support
Mental wellbeing of first-year economics students: The effect of a game-based orientation day
Presentation by Lize Vanderstraeten, Evelien Opdecam, Patricia Everaert
National Student Survey
Analysing the determinants of student satisfaction in the NSS
Presentation by Steven Proud, Guglielmo Volpe
Co-creation of learning materials
The long-term behavioural implications of co-creation in economics education
Presentation by Mario Pezzino, Karol Tolpa
Communicating economics
The end of the news?
Keynote by Dame Frances Cairncross
Who Should Attend?
Anyone interested in teaching economics at HE level (whether to economics or other students), especially:
- Lecturers in higher and further education
- Graduate teaching assistants
- Library and information staff
- Teaching support staff
- Staff developers
