It sure does make sense to share exercises. Like many, I find it hard to develop good ones. I have talked to the people who head up http://serc.carleton.edu/econ/index.html to put in a repository of good clicker questions. In some ways those don't differ much from AEs; in some cases they would be interchangeable. Do you think that this might work? More generally, does anyone else share discipline specific AEs? Are there lessons to be learned? I have seen on-line databanks of conceptests, like http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~pgreen/educ/ConcepTests.html and http://www.colorado.edu/physics/EducationIssues/cts/index.htm . - Bill Eddy said: > Hello Jasminka, > As a new instructor with little time to develop my own AE's I ended up > adapting a set of existing collaborative group exercises in my principles > of econ courses from a workbook titled "Economics Live! Learning Economics > the Collaborative Way" by Diane Keenan and Mark H. Maier (McGraw Hill, > ISBN 0-07-812646-0). Modifying the exercises so they demonstrate the TBL > 4-S's takes some creativity, but is possible. The other exercises I use > were inspired by other "active" learning literature I found. I would love > to join in the sharing of econ AE's. > Best, > Eddy > Eddy Chi, MA > Assistant Professor, Economics > Humanities and Social Sciences Department > Moreno Valley College, Riverside Community College District > 16130 Lasselle Street > Moreno Valley, CA 92551,USA > Phone: 951-571-6100 > Fax: 951-571-6185 > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Ninkovic, Jasminka <[1][log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > Dear All, > > > I have recently started using TBL elements in my econ classes > (principles of micro and macro and intermediate macro). I formed > permanent teams, used application exercises and peer evaluation. It > worked relatively well and the part I feel need to develop better is > application exercises. I ended up giving mainly multiple choice > questions but would like to give more complex questions while following > 4 Ss. Would anyone be ready to share an application for any of your econ > courses (I'd like to go with it in my Intro to trade course this > semester, too) or give more guidance where to go for them? > > Thanks a lot. > > Jasminka > > > Jasminka Ninkovic > > Assistant Professor of Economics > > Oxford College of Emory University > > Tel: 770-784.4689 * > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of > the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged > information. If the reader of this message is not the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution > or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly > prohibited. > > If you have received this message in error, please contact > the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the > original message (including attachments). > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:[log in to unmask] -- Bill Goffe Department of Economics SUNY Oswego, 416 Mahar Hall Oswego, NY 13126 315-312-3444(v), 315-312-5444(f) [log in to unmask] http://cook.rfe.org