Discovering economics & business blogs

Its always interesting looking through the websites that kindly link and send visitors to tutor2u…

We track every interaction on the tutor2u website using the superb Google Analytics. We can see who comes to the site, which pages they visit, the resources they download, how long they stay, which paths they take through the site and where they leave. Great for data anoraks!

One interesting feature of Google Analytics is seeing where site visitors come from. Most come from the search engines or simply typing www.tutor2u.net. Another big group of visitors are “referred” to tutor2u by following a hyperlink on another site. The referring link data tells us whether it was a Moodle or Blackboard installation, or perhaps another blog!

Looking through the stats yesterday, it was interesting to see just how many Moodle installations are out there - many of which now embed the RSS feeds from our various subject blogs into their resources. That’s great news - Moodle is by far the best VLE, even though BECTA and the educational establishment would like us all to disown it!

I also noticed an increasing number of Economics and Business studies blogs being set up by teachers, examiners and students.

For example this super one from Paul Ellis at Harrow International School (Beijing) and also one below from an unnamed business/econ teacher

We’ll keep an eye out for other examples over the weeks ahead