This paper suggests the use of Russian proverbs related to money to engage Russian-speaking students in the business … classroom. Russian proverbs enhance teaching by appealing to Russian students' cultural background, by presenting ideas in a …-speaking instructors to break down language barriers and to develop a close relationship with students. The use of Russian proverbs …

undergraduate level. A common concern is the non-attendance at lectures of unmotivated (conscript) students. This paper presents the … course. The results obtained, using an econometric model, suggest that what students do outside of lectures is equally, or …

methods. After students performed poorly during the initial course period, and engagement and attendance was subpar, it was … discovered that most students, though young, were deeply affected by, and emotionally invested in, the financial crisis that …. Therefore, the class was flipped to teach to the dominant macroeconomic event in students' lives—the financial crisis. The …

primed college students either for high performance or low performance in a classroom environment. Multiple groups of … students (n=306) from four colleges — one flagship state university (R2), two state universities (M1), and a community college … Napoleon Dynamite or Bluto from Animal House (low performance). Students then watched videos of economics lectures in a …

loss aversion to encourage student effort. This field experiment endows students with all of the points in the course … upfront, then deducts points for every error throughout the semester. Students perform three to four percentage points better …

This paper proposes the use of Spanish proverbs for teaching finance to Hispanic students. Spanish proverbs facilitate … teaching by appealing to Hispanic students' cultural background, by introducing ideas in a succinct and unique way, and by … and establish a trusting relationship with students. In addition, Spanish proverbs benefit English-speaking students by …

colleagues, students, and the general public. It is also a great place to gather information relevant to undergraduate economics … supplemental information with students. This article contains a detailed, step-by-step guide to embedding a twitter feed within a … LMS. Examples of how twitter can be used to share information to students in a Principles of Macroeconomics course are …