Teaching Economics to Undergraduates: Alternatives to Chalk and Talk

Contents: Foreword by William J. Baumol 1. Teaching Economics: What Was, Is, and Could Be Part I: Active and Cooperative Learning 2. Making Cooperative Learning Work in Economics Classes 3. Gender and Active Learning 4. Student Decision Making as Active Learning Part II: Writing, the Internet, and Discovery Through Sampling 5. Integrating the Practice of Writing Into Economics Instruction 6. Using the Internet and Computer Technology to Teach Economics 7. Using Monte Carlo Studies for Teaching Econometrics Part III: Examples from the World Around Us 8. Using Sports to Teach Economics 9. Using Literature and Drama in Undergraduate Economics Courses 10. Acceptance Speeches by the Nobel Laureates in Economics 11. Using Cases as an Effective Active Learning Technique 12. Engaging Students in Quantitative Analysis with the Academic and Popular Press