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Cengage’s Learning Platform Courses: Designed to help you connect economics concepts to real-world practice

Trusted content, flexible teaching options and AI-powered tools enhance your economics courses, helping you connect your lessons to the real world. With customizable pathways, seamless LMS integration and real-time insights, our learning platforms help you support your students today, while preparing them for what comes next.

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MindTap is Cengage’s Learning Platform to support economics education

MindTap Courses for Economics combine a wealth of interactive content and AI-powered tools, like the graph builder and practice tests, to give students a thorough understanding of  economic principles.



The graph builder helps students apply and reinforce key economic concepts through interactive exercises.

Data Exploration Activities use real data from sources like FRED and BLS to develop analytical and critical thinking skills.

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Content from leading economics authors

Cengage’s best-selling economics authors are among the most respected voices in the field. Their deep expertise shapes the high-quality content in our economics courses to help your students build a strong foundation and mastery of complex concepts.

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Game on with MobLab experiments

Bring economics concepts to life with MobLab’s interactive games, integrated into select MindTap Courses, including Principles of Economics. Students can complete any of the 25 experiments in minutes, giving you time to review results, explore student-generated data and use polls and tools to boost engagement.

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Student Assistant

Available in select MindTap courses, our AI-powered Student Assistant is trained with input from faculty and students and built on exclusive Cengage content. It guides learners through critical thinking, while maintaining accuracy, privacy and full alignment with the economics course materials you assign.

“MindTap is an excellent resource for faculty to increase and enhance student engagement with coursework outside of the classroom!”

— Nakul Kumar, Ph.D., Economics Instructor, Northern Virginia Community College

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Explore economics courses

Find the latest economics teaching tools and popular economics courses, like microeconomics, to guide your students’ understanding and learning experience.

Principles of Economics

Support your teaching with principles of economics courses that cover core concepts like trade-offs, opportunity cost and incentives, helping students understand how decisions drive economic outcomes.

Principles of Microeconomics

Enhance your microeconomics teaching with trusted courses and content that explore key concepts and illustrate how individual choices influence market outcomes.

Principles of Macroeconomics

Give students a clear view of macroeconomics with courses that examine national and global trends, including inflation, unemployment and policy decisions, while showing how these forces shape economies.

FAQs for economics courses and MindTap

Have questions about how MindTap works, which economics courses are available, and how our interactive, AI-powered tools support your economics teaching? Here are answers to the questions economics instructors ask most.

To create a MindTap Course for Economics, you will need to first sign into your account. After that, you can create a course by following these steps

MindTap Courses for Economics provides a guiding learning experience to help students become career-ready through engaging, relevant and real-world application. Economics teaching tools, interactive experiments and AI-powered support connect complex economics concepts to real life.   

Find a variety of MindTap training guides, video tutorials, webinars as well as other helpful training resources and tools to make the most of your economics courses. Explore our MindTap training resources.

Absolutely. Contact a Cengage representative to request a demo of MindTap, or create an account to access demos for specific MindTap Courses, including economics courses.