Dear colleague
Just a quick reminder about some of our forthcoming workshops that may be of
interest to you or other members of staff within your department:
USING ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS AND PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING
Birmingham, Friday 25 April 2008
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/events/esd0408.htm
A workshop aimed at those who wish to embed sustainability into their
economics teaching. The workshop will provide some practical ideas and
resources for doing this, as well as allowing participants to discuss and
share their own ideas.
ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK: A HALF-DAY WORKSHOP
London, Wednesday 7 May 2008
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/events/feedback0508.htm
Based on work done in the FDTL project 'Engaging Students with Feedback' and
the ASKe Centre for Excellence at Oxford Brookes University, this workshop
will explore current assessment and feedback understandings and practices.
USING PROBLEM BASED LEARNING (PBL) IN TEACHING ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
London, Thursday 8 May 2008
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/events/pbl0508.htm
A PBL workshop to discuss the use of this method of teaching with respect to
Economics.
USING THRESHOLD CONCEPTS TO PLAN TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT IN ECONOMICS
Coventry, Thursday 15 May 2008
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/events/threshold0508.htm
An introduction to threshold concepts in economics and the way in which they
can be used to understand the problems that students encounter in trying
learn economics.
TEACHING DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
Birmingham, Wednesday 21 May 2008
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/events/development0508.htm
This is an opportunity for those teaching development economics, or those
planning to teach it, to share ideas on curriculum contents, teaching
methods and assessment. Please forward details about this event to any
development economists/units within your institution.
There is no charge for attending an event, so long as you are a staff member
at a UK Higher Education institution.
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/news/
Best wishes
Bhagesh Sachania
Information Officer, Economics Network
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