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We have been using and promoting experiments in teaching economics for more than ten years, with very positive feedback from both students and instructors. In econclassexperiments.com, we are posting freely available the material and software to run experiments in the classroom with the use of smartphones or other mobile devices.
The experiments were first published by Ted Bergstrom and John H. Miller in their book “Experiments with Economic Principles”. Chapters from the book are now updated and presented in a free web-book . The experiments have been adapted to be run with mobile devices in the classroom; they run very fast and are very easy to conduct, even if you have no prior experience. The software and the material also save the instructor a lot preparation and tedious book-keeping work.
Please, visit https://econclassexperiments.com/ for a description of the program and how it works.
For each experiment, we provide
(1) an instructor’s manual with instructions to run the experiment and hints to conduct the discussion;
(2) instructions for students and exercises for them to reflect on the experiment;
(3) an online warm-up quiz; and
(4) Excel files that generate solutions to the exercises and collect participation, performance in the experiment and the warm-up quiz,..., all automatically from the data file provided by classEx (the free software we use).
If you are involved in teaching economics courses these days, we hope you will consider trying it out. Each experiment is self-contained and everything is free, so it is easy to give it a trial run.
Sincerely,
Ted Bergstrom (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Marcus Giamattei (Bard College Berlin and University of Passau)
Humberto Llavador (Pompeu Fabra University and Barcelona GSE)
John H. Miller (Carnegie Melon University)
P.S. Why do we do this? We have found that conducting economic experiments in the classroom, with discussions before, during, and after the experiments, is an effective way of getting students to use economics to think about the world around them. Students have no problem grasping the rules for the experiments and love getting involved with markets and then figuring out what happened rather than simply being lectured at. Better yet, they not always play as cleverly as they might, providing the opportunity to learn from their own and others’ mistakes. They are enthusiastic about what they learn. As instructors, we feel the same way.
P.P.S. We are committed to keep access to the all the material for free under a creative commons by-nc-nd icense.
We have been using and promoting experiments in teaching economics for more than ten years, with very positive feedback from both students and instructors. In econclassexperiments.com, we are posting freely available the material and software to run experiments in the classroom with the use of smartphones or other mobile devices.
The experiments were first published by Ted Bergstrom and John H. Miller in their book “Experiments with Economic Principles”. Chapters from the book are now updated and presented in a free web-book . The experiments have been adapted to be run with mobile devices in the classroom; they run very fast and are very easy to conduct, even if you have no prior experience. The software and the material also save the instructor a lot preparation and tedious book-keeping work.
Please, visit https://econclassexperiments.com/ for a description of the program and how it works.
For each experiment, we provide
(1) an instructor’s manual with instructions to run the experiment and hints to conduct the discussion;
(2) instructions for students and exercises for them to reflect on the experiment;
(3) an online warm-up quiz; and
(4) Excel files that generate solutions to the exercises and collect participation, performance in the experiment and the warm-up quiz,..., all automatically from the data file provided by classEx (the free software we use).
If you are involved in teaching economics courses these days, we hope you will consider trying it out. Each experiment is self-contained and everything is free, so it is easy to give it a trial run.
Sincerely,
Ted Bergstrom (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Marcus Giamattei (Bard College Berlin and University of Passau)
Humberto Llavador (Pompeu Fabra University and Barcelona GSE)
John H. Miller (Carnegie Melon University)
P.S. Why do we do this? We have found that conducting economic experiments in the classroom, with discussions before, during, and after the experiments, is an effective way of getting students to use economics to think about the world around them. Students have no problem grasping the rules for the experiments and love getting involved with markets and then figuring out what happened rather than simply being lectured at. Better yet, they not always play as cleverly as they might, providing the opportunity to learn from their own and others’ mistakes. They are enthusiastic about what they learn. As instructors, we feel the same way.
P.P.S. We are committed to keep access to the all the material for free under a creative commons by-nc-nd icense.