The Macroeconomics digital course enhancements is a comprehensive, open-access resource for economics instructors to adopt in whole or in part, and is designed to support flexibility for faculty and students. The content areas are divided into modules for ease of navigation or partial adoption as needed. We don’t have a required textbook even if we often refer to chapters in the OpenStax’s Principle of Macroeconomics. In addition, we provide suggestions for student activities and deliverables for each topic within the modules as well as reference videos and articles.
For the novice instructor, you will find an organized course structure highlighting key content areas and suggested activities. We provide various classroom activities so that instructors can pick and choose. For the new-to-online, this course offers a structure to follow and suggestions for engagement that can easily be adapted to online delivery. For the experienced faculty, our goal was to provide new ideas, engagement activities, and links to resources that could be shared with students seeking additional support. We’ve also curated additional resources that are open access and may be beneficial to instructors as supplemental materials.
In the course materials, we have included discussion prompt options, homework and activities, and quiz and exam. Below is a summary of each resource and how we envisioned use of these materials.
We provide extensive discussion prompt options that could be used in the classroom, in virtual class sessions, or as discussion board posts. We encourage instructors to consider these discussion prompts for online courses to enhance student engagement and provide a sense of community. They also lend themselves to deeper learning and application of the material.
In each module, we provide homework assignments including multiple choice questions, short-answer questions, exercises and problems. Most open source textbooks offer practice questions and a test bank so that you can easily adopt. Classroom activities could be graded or ungraded and provide students the opportunity to practice with the material.
Another suggestion to increase collaboration and engagement in the course is to have students use Google Docs or another collaborative tool to provide a test or quiz question related to the topics. Students could work in small groups to develop questions and earn participation or extra credit points for submitting accurate questions. This could even be developed into a competition between groups. This is one option for building a robust and unpublished source for quiz or exam questions. We suggest selecting a few of the top questions for quizzes or exams.
This Macroeconomics resource is intended to provide flexible adoption options for instructors. Instructors may use all of the materials in the modules or select what is most appropriate to enhance existing course materials. We hope this is a useful tool for economics instructors regardless of expertise level.
- Subject:
- Economics
- Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Material Type:
- Full Course
- Provider:
- University of North Carolina System
- Date Added:
- 09/21/2023