In the 12th session of EconTEAching, Parama Chaudhury (UCL), Annika Johnson (Bristol), Dimitra Petropoulou (LSE) and Margaret Leighton (St Andrews) spoke about their experience of running First Year Challenge in their universities in 2020-2021. … More Review: #EconTEAching Session 12: Creating a Community of Learners Online, by Dr Ramin Nassehi (UCL)

As we approached the end of 2020, CTaLE spent some time reflecting on Term 1 (2020) and looking ahead to Term 2 (2021). … More Reflections and Looking Ahead

Our eleventh EconTEAching seminar on December 2nd, 2020 focused on the important questions of how careers in economics teaching have developed in the Higher Education sector and what can be done to increase the profile of teaching track careers. … More Review: #EconTEAching Session 11: Careers in Higher Education Teaching, by Prof Cloda Jenkins (UCL)

In the 10th EconTEAching Session, Dr. Ramin Nassehi from UCL Economics and Dr. Christian Spielmann from Bristol University (but previously at UCL Economics!) illustrated how to use asynchronous videos for learning economics. … More Review: #EconTEAching Session 10: Enabling Student Learning Through Asynchronous Videos, by Dr Silvia Dal Bianco (UCL)

From 4th Sept 2020 the Economics Network hosted Theme 4, on Adaptable Assessment, of the 2020 Virtual Symposium. CTaLE and the Department of Economics at Warwick brought Theme 4 (Adaptable Assessment) to a close with the ninth session of the #EconTEAching chats on 16th September 2020. … More Review: #EconTEAching Session 9: Economics Network Theme 4 Adaptable Assessment, by Dr Annika Johnson (University of Bristol)

A review by Veronica Hera (UCL BSc Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 2018-2021) and Shivam Gujral (UCL BSc Economics, 2019-2022). … More What skills and tools do policy-makers use to analyse data?

The eighth session of the #EconTEAching chats, and first of the academic year 2020-21, organised by CTaLE and the Department of Economics at Warwick took place on 2nd September 2020. It featured Prof Phil Ruder (Pacific University) and was chaired by Prof Parama Chaudhury (UCL). … More Review: EconTEAching Session 8: Team-based Learning in Economics: how to make the transition to online education, by Dr Stefania Paredes Fuentes (University of Warwick)

The seventh session of the #EconTEAching chats organised by CTaLE and the Department of Economics at Warwick took place on 29th July 2020. It featured Dr. Abdullah Al-Bahrani (Northern Kentucky University) and Dr. Cristina Santos (Open University), and was chaired by Dr Cloda Jenkins from CTaLE at UCL. … More Review: EconTEAching Session 7: Designing Courses for the Transition to Online Teaching, by Dr Dunli Li (UCL)

A personal reflection by Prisha Bhandari, 1st year BA History, Politics and Economics student, based on work completed with Dr Cloda Jenkins as part of a UCL Laidlaw Scholarship research project on Employability Skills in Social Science Degrees. … More The importance of understanding and demonstrating skills employers look for, beyond just academics

The sixth session of the #EconTEAching chats organised by CTaLE and the Department of Economics at Warwick University took place on 15th July 2020. Robert Gazzale (University of Toronto) and Humberto Llavador (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE) talked to us about “Engaging Students Through Experiments Online and in the Classroom”. … More Review: EconTEAching Session 6: Engaging Students Through Experiments Online and in the Classroom, by Dr Ramin Nassehi (UCL)