Edward and Anna explore the use of various activities in teaching economics. They provide some practical examples and and provide useful advice on how to implement games and help the students get the most out of them as a learning experience.

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Two free sources for online games are:

Veconlab https://veconlab.econ.virginia.edu/games.php

ClassEx https://classex.de/

Two free sources for pen and paper based games

https://econiful.org/

https://www.core-econ.org/project/experiencing-economics/

Edward and Anna's paper on assessment is at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00220485.2012.636710

The Economics Network page on classroom

A couple of ideas to help with the moderation process, in particular helping with timing and consistency.

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A couple of examples of ways of being consistent, the second of which illustrates that you can be consistent without forcing everyone to be the same.

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A brief idea of some card game ideas that have been generated and, in the case of two of them, created in the last couple of weeks.

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Araida tells me about a system they use at Manchester Met using work-based mentors to support BAME students to help address the award gap.

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Ever since students have started to pay fees they have changed how they see the relationship with staff and institutions. Here I talk about one way of highlighting the personal responsibility of learners.

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Acknowledging that all our students are different and that many are struggling with or anxious about their sense of self and doing our best to show support.

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Sudesh explain the process he use to help students search for, find, analyse and use academic literature to enhance their knowledge, understanding and assessments.

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I often use video as a way of providing explanations and illustrations of ideas using different voices and interesting approaches. It's easy to embed in Powerpoint and well worth it.

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What have I learned from making the L&T Chat Show podcast? That how we interact with students has a significant impact on engagement and learning.

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