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Best Websites for Teaching and Learning Economics and Oxbridge Extension
12th November 2014
During our recent Economics departmental meeting, we discussed various websites we can't live without in regard to the teaching and learning of Economics. Some of our favourite ones are below. Enjoy...
The Economist and also the relevant app. there is a new app called The Economist 'Espresso' which uses the same online subscription. This is excellent and gives much smaller, accessible bite size articles suitable for students extended reading.
A vast bank of economic data and research at your finger tips. For free!
Essays on topical issues, latest developments in UK and global economies, and answers to readers questions
.A good way of sharing and creating new PowerPoint presentations on most topics to do with education, teaching and learning.
A great resource for looking at information regarding world banks, banking sector and some more generic material on world history and financial history.
A great pre-university resource for students thinking about following Economics at university and as a career. A good resource to have, encouraging students to study economics at university and help them to understand the relevance of mathematical and economic concepts.
Another pre-university resource focusing on Mathematics for Economics: enhancing Teaching and Learning. Improve student engagement with mathematics for economics with an interactive set of online resources, online question bank, over 50 video clips, 10 lecturer-focused teaching and learning guides and real world economics case studies.
FEELE is the Finance and Economics Experimental Laboratory at Exeter. It aims to encourage the use of experiments in economics and increase motivation and retention of students. Each student participates in 25 - 30 experiments during the Exeter Economics programme, which developed new classroom experiments for undergraduate modules some of which could be used with A-level students.
There are lots of great activities which can be used with students at A-level and some excellent pre-university resource for students thinking about a career in Economics. Examples include Teaching Resources in Undergraduate Economics (TRUE), Specialist Areas Development Economics – University of Southampton, Environmental Economics – University of Portsmouth, Experimental Economics – University of Exeter, Labour Economics – University of Dundee, International Economics – UWE, Monetary Economics – Cardiff University, Regional and Local Economics – University of Portsmouth.