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Category Archives: The Experiment
Qualitative Analysis of Econ201online
Last semester (as readers of this blog know), I taught my first fully online course, Principles of Macroeconomics. I also taught a second section in my traditional face-to-face mode. As part of the assessment of my online course, I asked … Continue reading
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Online Teaching & Learning: It’s harder than it looks
It has been said that no plan survives first contact and that has certainly been my experience teaching online this semester. I thought I was well prepared to teach this course, as well prepared as anyone can be who has … Continue reading
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Video Clips for the Online Course
The online course seemed to do worse again on the second midterm, especially on the analytical parts. I decided that I really needed to video record my class lectures on analytical topics. I tracked down the equipment and recorded nearly … Continue reading
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Addendum
After I wrote the last post, I found I keep thinking about some of the concerns I raised there. The advantage of presenting analytic material in class (in my interactive lecture sort of way) is that I get a read … Continue reading
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Week 4 Report on my online course
Last week I was distracted by other things, so it was ironic that we began the first seriously analytical topic in my course: the theory of supply & demand. This was one of the two topics I knew in advance … Continue reading
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Week 3 Report on my online course
This was a transition week as wrapped up Topic 1 and moved on to Topic 2. The last step for Topic 1 was that I divided the class into groups of three students, and each group had the responsibility of … Continue reading
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Second Week Report on my online course
This week was harder than week one. I’m still spending as much as twice the time in prepping and teaching my face-to-face section in my online section. I’m hoping this will diminish once we get up to speed. One lesson … Continue reading
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Interaction in a Content-Based Online Course
The more I work on my first online course, the more I feel that one could spend an infinite amount of time on this and still find new things I’d like to add or expand upon. If you’ve never taught … Continue reading
How can an online course be superior to a traditional face-to-face course?
I’ve gotten into the habit of posting nearly completely thought out ideas, with the result that I’ve largely stopped blogging, or more precisely, I have a stack of half written posts in draft none of which I’ve managed to publish. … Continue reading
Son of Pedablogy
I am planning to teach an online course a year from now during Fall 2012. The course is ECON 201, Principles of Macroeconomics, a course I have taught nearly every year since I began teaching in 1982, but always in … Continue reading
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