Economics Teaching Conference 2019

Economics Teaching Conference 2019 Agenda

October 24 - 25, 2019 -- Kansas City, MO

Friday, October 25, 2019

7:30 - 8:45 AM            Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00  AM           Welcome
9:00 - 9:45 AM            Breakout Session 1

• Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes and Bill Gates Walk into a Bar in Helsinki: Teaching Critical-Thinking Skills Using Disparate Data
• Game Theory of Thrones  
• Managing Online Discussions: Effective and Engaging Techniques
• Creating and using QR codes in the Classroom

9:45 – 10:00 AM         Break & Digital Cafe
10:00 - 10:45 AM        Breakout Session 2

• Interactive Learning of Introductory Microeconomics: Flip It, Digitize It and Test It!
• A Marginal Approach for Teaching “Thinking at the Margin”
• Blended Learning and Gamification Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Understanding in Economics
• Achieve More Student Engagement with MindTap

10:45 - 11:15 AM               Break & Digital Cafe
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM        Breakout Session 3

• New Application Exercise Library for Team-Based Learning
• An Active Approach to Introducing Preferences in Microeconomics
• Executive Decision: From the Board Room to the Classroom
• MobLab in MindTap: Hands-On Learning with Interactive Experiments and Surveys

12:00 -1:30 PM           Lunch & Keynote: Best in Class Award Winners
1:30 - 2:15 PM            Breakout Session 4

• Musk v. Bezos: The Battle for Space Supremacy: An Application of Pricing and Market Structure  
• Adverse Selection Outcomes in Financial Markets: A Classroom Game
• The Alchian Maze
• Advanced MindTap: Tools and Techniques from your Colleagues

2:15 - 2:30 PM            Break & Digital Cafe
2:30 - 3:15 PM            Breakout Session 5

• Classical Economists in Social Media
• Regarding Re-Grading
• Robots, Rebuttals and Rubrics: Encouraging Writing by Novice Students
• Standing, & Moving, & Throwing, Oh My!: Icebreakers to Increase Student Engagement

3:15 – 3:30 PM           Closing Remarks
 

FIRST PLACE
Michael Clark, Hillsdale College, The Alchian Maze. The Alchian Maze is a cheap, short and fairly fail-proof Economics game. Instructor Michael Clark shares tips for adding the game to your own curriculum, with his standard application focusing on the discussion of the price system and the profit/loss role in creating spontaneous order. 

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SECOND PLACE
Noreen Templin, Butler Community College, First Day Foundations. Break the ice on the first day of class with this activity from Macroeconomics instructor Dr. Noreen Templin. See how she ties introductory information with economic principles to give students insight into the concepts they'll learn throughout the course.

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THIRD PLACE
Jeffrey Hart, North Dakota State University, US Farm Report Video Quick & Commodity Analysis Quiz. Discover a more engaging approach to teaching variables that influence demand and supply by using relevant, real-world examples found in stories from the US Farm Report. Watch as instructor Jeffrey Hart walks through the activity.

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