Using Web Technology to Promote
Effective Active Student Learning
Just in Time Teaching in Economics

JiTTEcon Overview

Using JiTT Pedagogy
Getting started using JiTT.

JiTTs to Go
A library of JiTT warmup questions to use in your economics class, along with sample student responses.

Questions about JiTT
Basic questions about how to implement JiTT effectively.

JiTT Scholarship
Presentations, working papers, and articles on JiTTECON research + links to JiTT research in other disciplines.

JiTTEcon Mailing List
Join our mailing list and find out more about the use of JiTT in economics.

JiTT Digital Library Project
A comprehensive JiTT digital repository of JiTT resources (in process).

JiTT (in economics) Scholarship

Our research has focused on the relationship between JiTT pedagogy and student learning outcomes and students' attitudes about learning. Scholarly publications and presentations on the use of JiTT in economics are listed below.

JiTTEcon Publications

Teaching Newsletters

Mark Maier and Scott Simkins' presentation at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Nov., 2004) on the use of JiTT in economics was featured in two teaching newsletters.

  • Rhem, James (ed.). Just-in-Time Teaching, National Teaching and Learning Forum, Volume 14, No. 1 (December, 2004)
  • Just-in-Time Teaching, Tomorrow's Professor listserv (#615), Center for Teaching and Learning, Stanford University

JiTTEcon Presentations and Workshops

Below is a listing of presentations and workshops that we have conducted or are scheduled on the use of JiTT pedagogy in economics.

  • Lilly-South Conference on College and University Teaching, February, 2005, Greensboro, NC
  • Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching, November, 2004, Miami University (Ohio)
  • International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, November, 2004, Indiana University
  • Iowa Economists' Annual Meeting, May, 2004, Iowa State University
  • National Science Foundation NSF-CCLI Program Conference, April, 2004, Arlington, VA
  • Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, November, 2003, San Antonio, TX
  • Third Annual Teaching Economics: Explorations in Innovative Teaching Strategies Workshop, October, 2003, Wrightsville Beach, NC
  • Developments in Economics and Business Education (DEBE) International Conference, September, 2003, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Faculty Association of California Community Colleges
         Sacramento, CA, April 2003
         Glendale CA, January 2003
         Oakland, CA, March 2002
  • UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference, March, 2003, Greensboro, NC
  • 14th Annual Teaching Economics Conference, Robert Morris University, February, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA (Handout | Presentation)
  • Allied Social Science Association Meetings (American Economic Association), January 2003, Washington, DC (Handout | Presentation)
  • Minnesota Economic Association, October, 2002, St. Thomas University, St. Paul, MN
  • Regional Workshop on Active Learning in Economics, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA October 2001

 

 

Updated: 1/2005