Joshua Hall, Robert Lawson and Dirk Mateer developed a weblog which offers a variety of song lyrics which we can use to teach economics! Use…
Dirk Mateer, a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Penn State, uses pop culture in principle economics courses to help students understand and appreciate core concepts.…
Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides interesting economic lectures from well known Economists. Robert Shiller is Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and…
Worried about educational costs rising? Textbooks being too expensive? Want to save some money for your students? Check out Flat World Knowledge! All you have…
Congratulations to our 2012 graduates with a major in economics or a major in Economics and political studies! On behalf of the Department of Economics…
The Saylor Foundation is a not-profit organization established by Michael J. Saylor, founder and CEO of business intelligence firm MicroStrategy and the Foundation’s sole trustee.…
Steven Thompson Holm was born and raised in Kamloops, and graduated from the South Kamloops Secondary School French Immersion Program with an Ambassador's Scholarship to…
The 2102 Governor General's Academic Silver Medal and Thompson Rivers University Medal in Arts was awarded to Alexander Condon. Alexander Condon was born in Victoria,…
During the spring of 2011, MIT celebrated its 150th anniversary with symposiums, performances, exhibits and landmark events. This post links to symposiums on Economics and…
Steven D. Levitt an economist at the University of Chicago co-authored with a writer Stephen J. Dubner a best selling book titled Freakonomics. The book…
If you are a teacher and want to build a fact-based world view. I strongly recommend Gapminder. It unveils the beauty of statistics. Gapminder's mission…
If you need assistance with understanding Economics I strongly recommend: Wikipedia! You can learn not only about almost any economic concept you are having difficulty…
MIT has been a pioneer in offering courses online free of charge! There are numerous graduate and undergraduate courses with lecture notes, assignments and solutions,…
Laura Lamb has learned that the Western Economic Association International has accepted her paper, co-authored Belayet Hossain, "Aboriginal Labour Force Participation in Canada: Consideration of…
Although we have an Economics help center here at TRU to help you with your courses you might require additional assistance. MIT has developed an…
Have you ever thought you can take a course at MIT? Yes you can! MIT is now offering an Introduction to Microeconomics course free of…
Use experiments and games! The origin of experimental classroom games in economics as a method of teaching and exploration dates back to the early to…
Kahn Academy is a free world-class education for anyone anywhere. The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. It is a not-for-profit organization with…
Dr. Ehsan Latif and Dr. Stan Miles studied the factors affecting the academic performance of economics students at a small Canadian university using advanced statistical…
Using advanced statistical techniques Dr. Ehsan Latif and Dr. Stan Miles assessed how students value various instructor characteristics and teaching practices. Surveys completed by 387…
