A dynamic semester-long social dilemma game for economic and interdisciplinary courses

The authors present a semester-long game to teach the role of economics in natural resources management. The game is framed within a fisheries context: multiple student fisheries harvest fish to maximize yield/profit, which is measured using a piecewise linear function. There are prizes for both the student and the group with the highest semester-long catch, which brings forth the social dilemma associated with dynamic stock externalities in fisheries. The game can be played in large classes, is robust to student attrition, and requires 5–10?minutes per class period. Given its features, it can be used to teach behavioral economic principles in resource management, incentives versus command-and-control regulations, role of cheap talk, social preferences, punishment, and community management as well as solutions such as aquaculture.     

Classroom Games: The Allocation of Renewable Resources Under Different Property Rights and Regulation Schemes

The authors describe a renewable resource allocation game designed to stimulate students' interest in and understanding of market failure associated with open-access types of resource use. They also use the game to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of various property rights and regulation schemes. Because this exercise demonstrates the power of unregulated and regulated economic incentives, many types of students may benefit from this game, including undergraduates enrolled in the standard introductory and in more advanced microeconomics classes, as well as courses in environmental economics and natural resource economics. This game was specifically designed so that noneconomics majors in natural resource management and environmental courses could also benefit.     

Clickenomics: Using a Classroom Response System to Increase Student Engagement in a Large-Enrollment Principles of Economics Course

One of the most important challenges facing college instructors of economics is helping students engage. Engagement is particularly important in a large-enrollment Principles of Economics course, where it can help students achieve a long-lived understanding of how economists use basic economic ideas to look at the world. The author reports how instructors can use Classroom Response Systems (clickers) to promote engagement in the Principles course. He draws heavily on his own experience in teaching a one semester Principles course at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill but also reports on how others have used clickers to promote engagement. He concludes with evidence that students find clickers very beneficial and with an assessment of the costs and benefits of adopting a clicker system.     

合作学习打破大学英语课堂沉默的有效性研究

大学生消极的课堂沉默是多种因素共同作用的结果,不利于学生英语综合应用能力的培养和提高。合作学习以建构主义和人本主义理论为基础,强调学生的主体参与和生生之间的互动合作,既是一种有效的学习模式,也是一种新型的教学组织形式。以定量和定性的方式探讨了合作学习和传统教学模式跟课堂沉默的关系。研究表明,“以学生为中心”的合作学习对打破大学英语课堂沉默有明显效果,而“以教师为中心”的传统教学模式不仅会导致课堂沉默,而且会在一定程度上加重课堂沉默的程度。     

从“学习共同体”的构建谈大学课堂教学改革

以＂探究—行为展现—反思＂的循环教学为手段,对精细有机合成专业课进行实践教学探索,结果发现：＂学习共同体＂的构建,既能提升学生专业学习的能力,又能促进教师专业知识结构和专业素养的不断更新和完善;同时因其注重学生个体的＂自我建构＂和团队合作,并使教师的课堂教学在学生学习和讨论中深化,可实现大学课堂教学的新局面.     

论大学英语课堂环境下的合作学习

合作学习模式不仅是英语教学中的常见学习形式,同时也是教育领域一种重要的学习方法。在分析了与合作学习相关的理论知识的基础上,结合笔者的课堂实践和观察,探讨了如何在合作学习中分组和应开展怎样的小组活动,指出在合作学习中应注意的问题,明确教师所应承担的责任。最后指出如果能有效地在大学英语课堂上使用合作学习,不仅能培养学生的自主学习能力,也能为其终身学习打下基础。     

如何调动大学新生公共英语学习的主动性

非英语专业的学生学习英语时普遍缺乏兴趣和目的性,尤其是一年级新生在心理和学习方法上会有一个适应过程。本文从英语课堂教学中学生的学习心理、课堂的教学模式等方面阐述了大学英语教师在教学中应注意和改进的方面。旨在最大限度的调动学生的自主性、能动性和创造性。     

自主课堂在提高教学水平中的实用价值

自主有效课堂是一种充分发挥学生的主观能动性,使学生在动中学习,在学习中发展的一种新型课堂。它旨在培养自主的学习者,也就是能够进行有意义的学习并养成终生爱好学习的学习者。积极的课堂氛围是造就自主有效课堂的有效途径。     

课堂心理环境与学习效果相关性实证研究

课堂心理环境建设是大学外语教学的一个重要课题。本文通过访谈、问卷调查等方式研究大学生课堂心理环境与学习效果之间的关系,研究结果表明：课堂心理环境与学生学习成绩呈显著负相关;二者的相关,男生高于女生,文科高于理科;课堂心理环境对成绩处于两个极端的学生基本没有影响。根据调查结果,本文提出一些培养教师环境意识、优化大学外语课堂教学的建议。     

高校课堂教学中知识转移影响因素及过程分析

知识转移是近年来企业创新研究的方向之一,课堂教学也是一种知识转移的过程,运用知识转移相关理论对高校课堂教学提高教学效果具有参考意义,教师、学生、转移的知识、教师与学生的距离对提高知识转移的效果、促进教学相长具有重要影响。