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New teaching content from audioecon.com   Leave a comment

If you’re a regular follower of audioecon, you’ll notice some updates to our site this month (March 2023).  We recognize that, while students are increasingly eager to connect the classroom with current events, incorporating interesting, relevant daily or weekly news can be a heavy lift for professors.  

We’ve often included ‘teaching ideas’ in the past to ease the load for instructors wanting to incorporate relevant podcast content into classroom learning and assignments through discussions, reflections, etc. (see the ‘teaching ideas’ category for a full list).  Based on feedback, we’ll now be including teaching ideas with every new Audioecon.com post. Follow the ‘teaching ideas’ link on each new post to find :

  • a few “listening check” multiple-choice questions that incentivize careful pre-class listening,
  • suggestions for an in class teaching idea (~10 minutes of class time) which may include discussion ideas, numerical problems, data analysis, and graphical or other quantitative problems.

This will facilitate your efforts to help students digest the podcast content and merge it meaningfully with class concepts.  We hope this helps you easily infuse fresh examples and applications into your curriculum!  


P.S. if you’re a subscriber to audioecon, you may get a few extra email updates in the coming week or so as we add a healthy dose of fresh content. After that things will go back to normal! Apologies and thanks for your patience.

Posted February 28, 2023 by audioecon in Teaching Ideas

Do you teach with podcasts?   Leave a comment

If you use podcasts for teaching economics, you may find a new audioecon.com resource useful. Check out the new ‘Listening to Podcasts for Learning‘ page for tips to share with your students who may be used to listening to podcasts for pleasure, but could use some guidance in listening to learn. We also have a downloadable PowerPoint slide deck available for you to share in your classes or on your learning platform. Thanks to audioecon.com contributors and Emmanuel College students Olivia Fiorini and Eliana Falleur for putting these resources together.

Posted March 18, 2022 by audioecon in Teaching Ideas

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Best of ‘EC on Econ’ podcasts FA21   Leave a comment

At the end of each semester students in Econ 1101 Principles of Microeconomics at Emmanuel College create their own podcast to demonstrate their ability to apply microeconomic concepts to their world and to use those terms, theories and tenets of micro to understand and evaluate the world around them. Each semester I pick a few of my favorites to post here on AudioEcon. Check out the ‘Podlearning: Student podcast‘ page to listen and learn for yourself. This semester’s star topics include vaccine externalities, the economics of food banks and food insecurity, and a bartender’s eye view of the elasticity of alcohol.

Econ educators, check out the Podlearning page for assignment descriptions and tips to implement student-created podcasts in your classes!

Posted December 8, 2021 by audioecon in Teaching Ideas, Utility

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Behind the Scenes with Dr. Moryl of AudioEcon   Leave a comment

Learn what inspired AudioEcon.com, hear how Dr. Rebecca Moryl uses Social Media to teach economics, and get some inspiration for the semester ahead. Dr. Abdullah Al Bahrani interviewed Dr. Moryl to kick off the second season of ‘Coffee with Dr. A.’ Check out the engaging conversation between two passionate economic educators.

Posted January 13, 2021 by audioecon in Utility

Winter is coming for the restaurant industry   Leave a comment

Link: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936321423/winter-is-coming-for-the-restaurant-industry

Bar Gernika in Boise, Idaho

The Planet Money Indicator team explores the choices facing restaurants around the U.S. as the pandemic winter approaches. Includes an interview with a restaurant in Idaho that has implemented new strategies in the 2020 economic reality.

Assignment prompt: How does this podcast illustrate the short-run shutdown decision for firms? Use specific economic concepts from your reading and this podcast to explain the decision making process in general and specifically for firms in a crisis, such as the Covid-19 pandemic.

Original Air Date: November 18, 2020

Length: 9 minutes

Covid-19/Coronavirus & the Economy   Leave a comment

We’re adding the latest economic podcasts relating to the current Coronavirus Crisis here. Many also have discussion board / written assignment prompts.

Audioecon on Economic Rockstar   Leave a comment

I was recently interviewed by Frank Conway for his Economic Rockstar podcast about my techniques and recommendations for teaching with podcasts. You can check it out here

Posted May 4, 2018 by audioecon in Teaching Ideas

Student-made podcasts   Leave a comment

Check out three of the best student-group made podcasts from Econ 1101 Principles of Microeconomics spring 2018. Congrats and thanks for the great work!  Podlearning: Student-made podcasts

Posted May 4, 2018 by audioecon in Teaching Ideas

Budget Time   Leave a comment

budget timeLink: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/07/07/535987825/episode-782-budget-time 

Summary: The Planet Money team uses a ten minute block of time to demonstrate the allocation of the U.S. federal budget. Each program gets the same percent of ten minutes as the percentage it makes up of the total budget.

Original Air Date:July 7, 2017

Length: 15:49

The Hydrox Resurrection   Leave a comment

hydroxLink: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/08/23/545546014/episode-652-the-hydrox-resurrection 

Summary: Planet Money tells the tale of a man trying to bring back the forgotten Hydrox brand.  Discussion includes close substitutes, trademarks, patents, brands, and what they communicate to consumers.

Original Air Date: September 18, 2015

Length: 19:46

Special thanks to twitter@TiemesEsther for recommending this podcast

 

Posted September 5, 2017 by audioecon in Patent, Planet Money, Utility

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