The Master Grande Ecole curriculum at EM Normandie School is organized around junior consulting projects and real problem solving activities aiming at bridging the gap between classroom knowledge and professional competencies. Since the 90’s students are involved in regular consulting...

This paper explores a complementary method of teaching economics founded in the service learning approach, and evaluates the effectiveness of service learning programs where final-year students of college engaged in Community Service provide microeconomic assistance to underprivileged...

The author describes a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) group assignment in which students predict macroeconomic outcomes of various real-world events before they have learned about the IS-LM model that is covered in Intermediate Macroeconomics textbooks. The author also gives a brief history of the...

In goods markets an equilibrium price balances demand and supply; in a financial market an equilibrium price also aggregates people's information. And while the underlying efficient market hypothesis is one of the centerpieces of capital market theory, students often have difficulties grasping...

The Advanced Placement (AP) economics education program serves thousands of high school students each year, many of whom receive college credit upon successful completion of an AP economics exam. The AP curriculum, and tests, are not explicitly tied to a set of economic learning objectives. In...

Open Educational Resources (OER) are widely considered as a cost effective option for students. As hard-copy textbooks are replaced with OER, a suggested solution to complement OER’s effectiveness is incorporating adaptive learning online platforms. An adaptive learning platform is designed to...

The introduction of new Information and Communication Technologies (ITC) in teaching at the University level has culminated in unstoppable innovation teaching process and generates new learning ways. One of the latest learning phenomena has been “m-learning”. An open, cheap, and global way...

Recently, technology has been increasingly integrated into higher education through gamified learning, which applies game design principles to educational content. The purpose of the present paper is to assess and depict the engagement of students in the field of economics and business in...

This paper uses two large databases to determine if students of a given gender learn more from instructors of the same gender and if instructors of a given gender receive higher ratings from students of the same gender compared to students of the opposite gender. The Indiana University (IU) data...

The percentage of doctorates in economics awarded in the United States to US citizens has declined from 67.3 percent in 1977 to 55.7 percent in 1986 to 42.9 percent in 1996 [Siegfried and Stock, 1999]. This clearly implies that the number of economics instructors whose native language is not...