Ever since Becker and Watts (1996) and, more recently, Watts and Schaur (2011) found that economic educators rely heavily on “chalk and talk” as a primary teaching method, economic educators have been seeking new ways to engage students and improve learning outcomes. Recently, the use of...

Social media access and usage has grown rapidly in the past several years. In academia, social media is a new pedagogical tool that may be used to engage students in and outside the economics classroom and impact their overall success. In this study we examine the students’ view of...