A Few Research Websites for Teaching Economics

General Websites for Economics Instructors

www.eerc.ru The homepage for Economics Education & Research Consortium (Kyiv). It includes much information about the program, links to other sites, and more information about the Economics Research and Outreach Center (EROC), the sponsor of this conference, and sponsor of grants for economic research in the region.

www.ipm.by The homepage for Institute for Privatization and Management in Minsk. The homepage gives information about its programs.

www.FederalReserveEducation.org The homepage for U.S. Federal Reserve Education publications but also provides links to numerous resources for economics education including links for data, lesson activities, publications. Scroll down to the many choices found on the home page. The choices include “Non Fed Web Sites and Resources”. This includes many, many links that are helpful for economics instructors and their students. Many of the sites listed below can also be accessed by this link. See especially “Resources for Economists on the Internet” under the Non Fed Web Site category.

www.ncee.net The homepage for National Council on Economic Education. Here there are links to many lesson activities and also to “economicsinternational” website which has more lessons, study tours and workshop applications for educators in transition countries. Announcements and applications for future opportunities are posted there.

www.mit.edu MIT’s website has open courseware that includes syllabi from several different economics courses.

www.mhhe.com/economics/ This is McGraw Hill Publisher’s website but is an excellent source of free information for both instructors and students. It has links to many different resources for teaching economics at the university level. You can also link to the many texts published by them such as McConnell-Brue’s Economics.

www.prenhall.com/osullivan The website for two of O’Sullivan texts published by Prentice Hall. But there is free access for students and instructors to internet exercises, Study Guide, sample exam questions for both macro and microeconomics principles courses.

Websites for Classroom Experiments and Games

www.economics.harvard.edu/~aroth/alroth.html

(site of Professor Roth at Harvard)

Guides for Writing Research Papers and Detecting Plagiarism

www.questia.com

Homepage gives overview of steps to follow in writing research paper “How to Write a Research Paper.” Access to complete online research library (full texts of articles, books, etc.) is provided for payment depending on condition. For example, one month access is $20.

www.researchnavigator.com

Homepage gives a free link to guide for writing research papers. Also, there is a fee for access to search engine that obtains copies of articles, data information, etc.

www.turnitin.com

The best search engine for finding plagiarism on student (or other) papers and reports. There is a charge for this service, but free trials may exist for you to test the service.

www.google.com

This search engine is also quite successful in detecting plagiarism if you have some citations or keywords from reports to test.

Economic History and Policy

http://econ161.berkeley.edu/movable_type/

The website of Brad DeLong, Economic History Professor at U. of California Berkeley puts recent developments in historical context. He has worked with Lawrence Summers, President of Harvard, both at Harvard and at U.S. Treasury. His opinions are sharp, amusing, and based on fact.

Syllabus Construction

www.mhhe.com/socscience/speech/stewart9/teachers/syllabi/sylltips.htm

www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching/syllabi.html

Iowa State’s “Learning Centered Syllabus Workshop”

Teaching with Case Studies

www.hbsp.harvard.edu

Harvard Business School’s website with links to their materials catalog

www.CEUME.kiev.ua

CEUME’s website with case links for Ukraine. See

www.casestudy.idc.org.ua

www.kyivweekly.com

Weekly business news articles that may suggest good case studies for economics courses in Ukraine

Compiled by Joyce Gleason, April 2004