This paper presents three ideas for applying the philosophy of experiential education using three experiential learning projects suitable for a first or only course in general economics. It also reports students' experiences as outlined in their papers and in evaluative surveys they completed....

In this article we describe a form of critical pedagogy introduced in an environmental economics course that engaged students in critical action. Critical action takes students beyond critical thinking, teaching them to think critically in analyzing classroom material and to frame action...

Challenges continue for higher education to improve learning outcomes and better prepare graduates for successful careers. Service-learning, an instructional method that integrates theoretical learning with real life experimentation and community service, offers the positive impacts of its...

The paper presents a classroom experiment designed to improve undergraduate students' understanding of how banks create money. This concept is important to Macroeconomics and Money and Banking courses, yet students frequently struggle with it, largely due to the non-physical nature of deposits...

In this paper we describe how we used Facebook as a complementary tool to our LMS. We collected data on student usage and surveyed student opinion in several online/blended sections. Our hypothesis is that our empirical analysis will find a positive correlation between student usage of Facebook...

More than three decades of intense interest in and scholarship about the determinants of student learning of economics has led to surprisingly few insights about what a typical faculty member can do differently to increase student academic success. Based on data from a natural experiment, we...

This paper presents a classroom experiment where students participate in a simulated futures market. This experiment can be run in about an hour and allows students to interact, negotiate, try different strategies, see how their accounts are closed, and observe how spot and futures markets...

Based on providing quicker, electronic feedback to enhance student learning, a natural experiment was used to assess the benefit of changing quizzes from in-class to online in the Principles of Finance course at a technological university in the Midwestern United States. Online homework and the...

Using museum exhibits to engage students in experiential learning has not been largely explored by economists. Instructors can enhance the cognitive experience of students at the museum by tying the course content to appropriate exhibits, readings, activities and assessments. This can also lead...

I In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, universities closed to face-to-face learning, shifting entirely to online instruction midway through the spring 2020 semester. In this paper, we compare student performance in the COVID-19 affected semester to that of the previous three unaffected...