The
Teach-Econ Mailing List
The list provides helpful tips and feedback for professors
teaching economics courses. Subscription information is provided at the site.
Business
This Week/Politics This Week
Business This Week is a summary of the week's main
business events sent out each week by The Economist; Politics This Week
is a weekly summary of recent political events. Subscription to either summary is
free but requires a registration.
In
Demand - About.com Economics Newsletter
Sign up for an economics newsletter outlining new resources
available at the About.com EconomicsWeb site.
Quickbrowse (custom
newspapers emailed daily)
Quickbrowse allows you to build your own customized
newspaper by selecting information from a variety of newspapers around the U.S. and
combining it into a single Web page that can be emailed to you daily.
Economic
Insight - Macro Edition - weekly email
Economic Insight/Macro Edition offers weekly
analysis of current macroeconomic and financial conditions, business cycle developments,
and economic trends and issues. Signup for free weekly email is available on this page.
(online Web version of weekly
newsletter)
EcEdWeb
The most comprehensive site of economic education
materials, the purpose of EcEdWebis to provide support for economic education in all forms
and at all levels.
Merlot - Economics and Business
"Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and
Online Teaching (MERLOT) is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and
students in higher education. With a continually growing collection of online learning
materials, assignments and reviews, MERLOT helps faculty enhance instruction. MERLOT is
also a community of people who strive to enrich teaching and learning experiences."
Instructors can both use and contribute materials to this site developed originally
by the California State University Center for Distributed Learning .
WebEc's
Index of Economic Education Links
This site provides a comprehensive list of economic
education links, including examples of how other professors are using the Web in their
courses.
EDIRC
- Economic Education
An international listing of groups, institutes, and
research centers concerned with economics education. Part of the general Economics
Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World (EDIRC) site.
Resources for
Teachers and Students
About.com provides an extensive list of on-line resources
to bring your economics course to life.
Resources
for University Teachers of Economics
This site is run by the University of Melbourne and
provides links to research papers, software, and educational links focusing on economics
education.
Journal
of Economic Education
Online version of the highly-regarded publication focused
on all aspects of economic education. Full-text content of recent issues are
available for viewing and download.
Journal
of Economic Education Online Section
The primary goal of the Online section of the Journal of
Economic Education is to identify exemplary material for teaching and learning
economics that is interactive or otherwise not conducive to traditional printed-page
format.
The Teaching Economist On-line
Newsletter
The on-line version of William A. McEachern's
(South-Western College Publishing) semi-annual newsletter, "aimed at making your
teaching of economics more fun and more effective." Each issue incluldes a wide
variety of teaching ideas that you can implement in the classroom, as well as an online
forum, The Grapevine, "where contributors can share teaching ideas."
EconomicsAmerica
A nationwide, comprehensive program for economic education
in America's schools. Includes online economics lessons, national content standards
in economics, and guidelines for curriculum development.
EconEdLink
A joint project between the National Council on Economic
Education and MCI, the site is designed to improve the economic and technological literacy
of the nation's students and their teachers. Contains a variety of useful resources
for improving the teaching and learning of economics.
History of Economic Thought Archive
The History of Thought Archive represents an attempt to
gather all material for the study of the history of economics at one site. This includes
both primary texts, studies of those texts and of their authors.
The
Library of Economics and Liberty
"The Library of Economics and Liberty is dedicated to
advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty." Full versions of a
number of historical economics texts are provided at the site.
Making of
America
"Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of
primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through
reconstruction."
Political Cartoons (New
York Times)
View a wide selection of current and archived political
cartoons to accompany your economics courses.
Tutor2U (England)
An extensive British study portal for students studying
economics.
BizEd (England)
Biz/ed is a unique business and economics service for
students, teachers and lecturers, with learning materials, data, and a catalog of
high-quality Internet resources by topic.
Virtual
Developing Country
This site introduces you to many of the issues and ideas
that are of interest in the field of development economics. You can take a series of
virtual field trips throughout Zambia visiting a number of places and people. At each stop
on the way you will be able to gain access to key data and economic theory, a glossary,
pictures and have the opportunity to complete worksheets.
Learning and Teaching Support Network -
Centre for Economics
"Economics LTSN is one of 24 subject centres, based in
higher education institutions throughout the UK, offering subject-specific expertise and
information on learning and teaching. This site provides a wealth of resources for
economists involved in learning and teaching in higher education."
The
Scout Report - Business and Economics
A very useful guide to current economic information
available on the Web. The Scout Report is published bi-weekly and contains current
information on recently released data, economics-related research, learning resources, and
a current economic news topic. Archives of past issues are also available at the
site.
World
Lecture Hall-Economics
A listing of on-line economics courses and course material
from instructors around the U.S. and the world.
World Bank Economic Development
Institute
(Resources for Teachers and Trainers)
"Web site for teachers and students who want to study
social, economic, and environmental issues of sustainable development around the world.
Explore learning modules, maps, charts, data tables, case studies, photos, outreach
activities, teachers' materials, on-line student newspaper, and much more."
Non-Computerized Classroom-Games for
College Economics
"This web site is a resource for instructors of
economics who would like to use non-computerized economic experiments (games) in their
classrooms. The bulk of the website consists of an extensively annotated and hyperlinked
compilation of more than 113 classroom games, most of which can be played within one class
period. The purpose of the games is to help teach fundamental micro and macroeconomic
concepts."
Textbook Publishers
Selecting an economics text? These pages provide links to
textbook publishers and to specific books by course and author.
