Welcome to the Department of Economics at Thompson Rivers University.
We are excited to be hosting the B.C. Economics articulation meetings on April 28th and 29th, 2014. We believe we have a very exciting two day program with many presentations which will have a focus
on Economics Education as well as the round table articulation and the business meeting.
The presentations and meeting will take place in the international building: Room number IB1007. The publishers will display textbooks in IB1021.
For hotels close to TRU we recommend the Ramada Inn or the New Best Western.
Both hotels are a kilometre away from TRU. For more information about the hotels check
Tentatively, the schedule is as follows:
Monday, April 28th, 2014
8:00 – 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 9:30: Student expectations from a “good” professor by Hasnat Dewan
9:30 – 10:00: Economics media with the launch of the new edition of Paul Krugman’s Principles book, by Julia, Jemvenova from Worth MacMillan
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:15: Social media and student engagement by Stan Miles and Ehsan Latif
11:15 – 11:45: Featuring a new product – Course Connect, by Leigh – Anne Graham from Pearson Education
11:45 – 12:45: Lunch
12:45 – 13:45: Round table discussion
14:00 – 17:00 Business meeting (includes a 15 min break)
17:00 – 18:00 Break
18:00 – 21:00 Dinner at Brownstone’s Restaurant and a talk by Chris Ragan !
19:30 – 20:30 The burden of slow-growth recovery: Canadian Macro policy in the wake of the crises, Chris Ragan
Tuesday, April 29th, 2014
8:00 – 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 9:30: A classroom game on climate change and the fairness issue by Laura Lamb and Peter Tsigaris
9:30 – 10:00 Lyryx and the solution by Aidan Inglis from Lyryx and Ian Irvine from Concordia University,
10:00 – 10:15 What do Economists want from conferences? by Jonathan Warner from Quest University
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:00: A new Online Learning Tool called MindTap that accompanies Mankiw, by Jane Mathers, Nelson Education
11:00 – 11:30: Team learning in Economics: A tool kit, by Lian Dumouchel
11:30 – 11:45: Closing remarks
