Popular wisdom holds that publishers revise college textbooks mainly to kill off the secondary market for used books. While this behavior might be profitable if consumers are myopic, uninformed or have high short-run discount rates (that exceed the publishers'), neoclassical authors have noted...

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed training processes. The transition from face-to-face to virtuality has affected the entire educational process favoring one of the open innovation key features in the higher education institutions: the ability to manage knowledge flow. Open innovation in...

Digital textbooks, which are equipped with various learning resources including multimedia aids, assessment questions, and hyperlinks to external resources, can be an important channel for harnessing technologies in classrooms. Korea's digital textbook experiment provides a unique empirical...

Traditionally, students of economics have often been told that it is a non-experimental science. Using a quantitative and qualitative analysis of introductory economics textbooks, we track the historical evolution of this rhetoric from 1970 to the present day. We find that anti-experimental...

Damit Berufstätige langfristig gesund und leistungsfähig bleiben, benötigen sie adäquate Erholung. Die bisherige Forschung hat gezeigt, dass sich Achtsamkeitstraining positiv auf diverse Erholungsprozesse auswirken kann. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Master-Thesis wurde untersucht, wie sich...

Machine learning (ML) is changing virtually every aspect of our lives. Today ML algorithms accomplish tasks that until recently only expert humans could perform. As it relates to finance, this is the most exciting time to adopt a disruptive technology that will transform how everyone invests for...

The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the global financial crisis of 2008, the climate crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. It envisions a wide variety of economics graduates and specialists, equipped with a broad toolkit,...

With the support of information and technology (ICT), teachers have many options to enhance the teaching effectiveness. Flipped learning (FL) approaches have students use technology to access the lecture and other instructional resources outside the classroom in order to engage them in active...

The relationship between student online activity (including access to specific course materials) and student performance is examined in a traditional face-to-face introductory finance course supported with a class web site. Six measures are used: total hits, hit consistency, number of unique...

Contents: Introduction: Learning from teaching failures, achieving teaching successes / Sabine Baumann -- Part one: Teaching strategic management history and newly evolving fields -- Chapter 1: Teaching the history of strategic management / Päivi Maijanen -- Chapter 2: Teaching strategy as an...

Needs analysis is considered an essential step which normally precedes English for Academic Purposes course design. It allows course developers to identify the tasks the target audience has to complete, and the skills they need to master. Based on the experience of the ‘English for Academics'...

While Ethiopia has experienced remarkable improvement in access to education, quality of education has hardly kept pace. An acute shortage of teaching/learning materials has particularly hampered learning in primary and secondary education, and the limited materials available frequently turn out...

Information and communication technologies, such as laptops, can be used for educational purposes as they provide users with computational tools, information storage and communication opportunities, but these devices may also pose as distractors that may tamper with the learning process. This...

Information and communication technologies, such as laptops, can be used for educational purposes as they provide users with computational tools, information storage and communication opportunities, but these devices may also pose as distractors that may tamper with the learning process. This...

This book offers 32 texts and case studies from across a wide range of business sectors around a managerial framework for Sustainable Business. The case studies are developed for and tested in executive education programmes at leading business schools. The book is based on the premise that the...

S social science : foundations 1 pluralist economics: is it scientific? / Sheila Dow -- Monism in modern science and competitive pluralism : the case of economics / Frank Beckenbach -- Pluralism in economics : epistemological rationales and pedagogical implementation / Jakob Kapeller -- In and...

We revisit the idea that textbook publishers revise frequently in order to "kill off" the market for used books. While a popular idea, conflicting durable good models suggest alternatives to planned obsolescence. To address this particular case, we develop a model of the textbook market that...

Introductory economics courses emphasize opportunity cost, comparative advantage and specialization to show the benefits of trade. We assert that this emphasize leads to erroneous student mindset that trade requires specialization based on comparative advantage. We test students who have been...

For more than 70 years, William Paton contributed his considerable energy and knowledge to the development of accounting thought. He was one of the early accounting educators to express the high purpose of accounting and its importance in the university, and he was among the early theorists in...

What is the case method? : what's in it for you? -- Part I. Analyzing cases: What is a case? -- The skills you need to read and analyze a case -- How to analyze decision scenario cases -- How to analyze evaluation scenario cases -- How to analyze problem-diagnosis scenario cases -- Part II....

Intro -- Inhalt -- Vorwort zur 20. Auflage -- Vorwort zur 12. Auflage -- Vorwort zur 1. Auflage -- 1. Kapitel -- Vom Individuum und seinem Verhalten -- Test-Aufgabe 1 -- 2. Kapitel -- Das Individuum in der Gruppe -- Test-Aufgabe 2 -- 3. Kapitel -- Kommunikation im Seminar -- 4. Kapitel -- Vom...