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Unpublished Paper
Teaching Economics Interactively: A Cannibal's Dinner Party
Department of Economics, UCSB (2007)
  • Ted C Bergstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara
Abstract

This paper describes techniques that I use to teach economics principles "interactively". These techniques include classroom experiments and classroom clickers. The paper describes an experiment on market entry and gives examples of applications of classroom clickers. Clicker applications include the collection data about student preferences that can be used to construct demand curves and supply curves. Check on students' knowledge of central concepts. Play interactive games that illustrate economic concepts.

Keywords
  • teaching economics,
  • classroom clickers,
  • classroom experiments,
  • active learning
Disciplines
Publication Date
October 26, 2007
Citation Information
Ted C Bergstrom. "Teaching Economics Interactively: A Cannibal's Dinner Party" Department of Economics, UCSB (2007)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ted_bergstrom/67/