It was a beautiful sunny afternoon on July 15th, 2021 – but for the 17 University of Oklahoma students completing a month long Study Abroad trip – it may as well have been 1828! … More Economics Walk with the University of Oklahoma

Accounting for many issues teachers have faced with online teaching, the speakers presented thought-provoking topics, ranging from lessons learned in the pandemic to the ways to help students succeed in economics. … More Best Practices and New Ideas for Teaching Econometrics

Accounting for many issues teachers have faced with online teaching, the speakers presented thought-provoking topics, ranging from lessons learned in the pandemic to the ways to help students succeed in economics. … More Helping Students Succeed in Economics

Writing is undoubtedly a huge component in Economics, but it is quite different from traditional writing in other fields. In the third session of TeachECONference2021, presenters discussed the best ways to teach the unique writing methods of Economists. … More Economists write differently. The uniqueness of economic writing and how to teach it

Accounting for many issues teachers have faced with online teaching, the speakers presented thought-provoking topics, ranging from lessons learned in the pandemic to the ways to help students succeed in economics. … More Lessons Learned from Teaching in a Pandemic

The first session of TeachECONference2021 was marked by both precise analysis of the current state of economics education and innovative ideas to carry economics forward. … More Giving yourself your own grade, expressing your emotions to your professor, and experimenting with data: Inspiring ideas for economics education

The first panel of TeachECONference2021 explored the experiences of educators during COVID. As an Economics student who spent the entirety of first year learning remotely, there were three main takeaways that I could relate with. … More COVID and education: What educators have to say, and a student perspective

In Spring 2020, just before the pandemic affected delivery of teaching at UCL, I (Prof Cloda Jenkins) agreed to join the teaching team for our first year Economics course, based on CORE, in 2020/21. By the summer it was clear that teaching would be largely online, or at least socially distanced if on campus. In September, after the upswing in A-level … More Teaching with experiments online: reflections on how it went from a lecturer and student perspective, July 2021

As Explore Econ 2021 was held virtually this year, Dr Ramin Nassehi was awarded UCL ChangeMakers funding to bring on Economics students Mihir Gupta (Y3) and Khushi Kakrania (Y2) to serve on the Scientific Committee. Read on for Mihir and Khushi’s insight: Ever since the first year of our undergraduate degree at UCL, the annual … More Explore Econ 2021 Scientific Committee Panel Reflection

We caught up with Aadya and Kimberly on their winning poster (“Performance Pay in Health and Education – Can incentives transform efficiency in the public sector?”) … More Explore Econ 2021 Best Research Poster – Aadya Sharma and Kimberly Nyamushonongora