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Try Your Hand At
Learning Techniques |
Active Learning techniques engage students in the learning process and produce the type of knowledge that lasts. Some of the following are thumbnail sketches intended to wet your taste to read the source article.
I Want To Use An Active Learning Technique To Teach About:
Basic Economic Graphs |
The Econ Cheer - fun for the whole
class!
Online Classroom Games
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Production, Opportunity Cost and Comparative Advantage |
Game 1: Diminishing Marginal Returns, Marginal Costs, Production Costs.
Game 2: Production, Scarcity, Production Possibilities, Opportunity Costs.
Game 3: Comparative Advantage, Production, Opportunity Costs.
Game 4: Resource Scarcity Game
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Free Riders and Public Goods |
Game 1: Free Riders and Public Goods.
Game 2: More Free Riders and Public Goods.
Game 3: Bargaining for Public Goods and
Consumption.
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Economic Expectations and Information |
Game 2: Rational Expectations and Trade in the Asset Market.
Game 3: Rational Expectations and Information.
Game 4: Economics of Information, and Product Quality.
Game 5: Bayes' Rule and Adjusting Expectations with Information
Game 6: Importance of Consumer Information,
Reputational Enforcement.
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The Effects of Regulation on Decision Making |
Game 2: Barter Trade, Exchange, Effects of Regulations.
Game 3: Trade Barriers (U.S. Sugar Quota), Supply, Demand.
Game 4: Decision Making, Efficiency of
Incentives for Pollution Control.
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Supply and Demand |
Game 2: Trade Barrier (U.S. Sugar Quota),
Supply, Demand.
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Public Policy and Decision Making |
Game 2: Public Policy Economic Analysis, Economic Simulation.
Game 3: Decision Making, Efficiency of
Incentives for Control.
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Common Property |
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Money Supply |
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The Labor Market |
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The Stock Market |
For more interactive classroom
games such as these, go to Classroom
Expernomics and LavaMind's Games for
Learning and find more active learning techniques on the Web!
Game summaries compiled by Sarah M. Harvieux.
