More on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Economics (Phase 3)
Phase 3 of our project is an expanded set of opportunities for participants to engage in scholarly activities associated with their use of interactive teaching strategies. The opportunities to write and publish created by the project will provide another incentive for participants to implement interactive learning. Participant scholarship will make an important contribution to undergraduate education and should merit recognition and reward in colleges and universities.
This program goal will be achieved in several ways. First, the PIs will organize annual sessions at the American Economic Association and two regional economic association meetings at which participants can present papers about new educational materials, interactive instruction, or research on teaching. Second, pedagogical work from the program will be circulated via the Blackboard web site, both as a means of obtaining feedback and to foster an ongoing dialogue about teaching. Third, when participant papers and materials are fully developed and reviewed, recommendations will be made for them to be submitted for publication to the Jounal of Economic Education (JEE) and other outlets interested in economic education.
In the last year of the program, a conference on the scholarship of teaching and learning will be held and the results from it will be published in a book volume of papers. The conference will consist of papers prepared by participants on the theme "Improving Teaching and Research in Economics through Interactive Learning." The PIs will invite participants to submit abstracts of papers they propose to present. Based on the abstracts, the PIs will invite approximately 15 participants to prepare and present papers and another 15 participants to serve as paper discussants. Finished papers will be published in the conference volume edited by the PIs. The PIs have approached Edward Elgar, a book publisher that has expressed interest in publishing the conference volume.
The conference will provide additional incentives for participants to apply what they learned in the workshop. By integrating interactive learning into their teaching and using their skills as researchers, participants can investigate how students benefit from interactive learning and publish their findings in the conference volume. The volume will document ways in which the gap between current and best economic education practice is being bridged.
Sessions at Professional Meetings