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Interactive Classroom

By Guest PostOctober 28, 2012Educationbuyer, catherine eckel, class, computer generated, dallas, economic scenarios, economics professor, ellen green, equilibrium price, experimental economics, game, interactive, introductory economics, market, markets, personal experience, posted offer, profit maximization, real world, sheryl ball, teaching program, teaching system, Technology, texas, virginia tech, widgets, wireless, wits, wits programs

Economics professor implements Wireless Interactive Teaching System

Ellen Green, a visiting assistant professor of economics in the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, is finding new ways to engage students in the classroom instead of simply lecturing.

Green uses a Wireless Interactive Teaching System (WITS) in her introductory economics classes that enables students to act as players in different economic scenarios — they even compete against each other during class. (more…)

Build it and They Will Come? Think Again

By Guest PostJanuary 25, 2011Economyair travel passengers, american cities, conventional wisdom, dallas, east coast, economic development, Houston, job creation strategies, job growth, jobs, miami, midwestern cities, permanent nonfarm jobs, Phoenix, riverside, sunbelt cities, zachary neal

EAST LANSING, Mich. — When it comes to economic development in American cities, the trusted old theory “If you build it, they will come” may not work, a Michigan State University sociologist argues in a new study.

Conventional wisdom holds that job growth attracts people to urban areas. (more…)

Bing National Tailgating Championship to Decide America’s Top Tailgaters

By Guest PostOctober 25, 2010Technologybing, bing national tailgating championship, brats versus burgers, dallas, danielle tiedt, decision engine, football, fort worth, joe cahn, Microsoft, recipes, tailgate to tailgate, tailgaters, tailgating institute of america, taxicab, team jersey versus winter coat, the commish, tia, weather

REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 25, 2010 — Brats versus burgers; team jersey versus winter coat; early departure versus post-game party in the parking lot — all are important game-day decisions for football fans and tailgaters this time of year.

Today, Bing, the Decision Engine from Microsoft Corp. that provides football fans with everything they need to make these vital game-day choices, is introducing a new competition that will celebrate tailgating and crown the team that makes the best tailgating decisions in four key categories: cooking, sports trivia, parking lot athletics and team spirit. (more…)

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Interactive Classroom

Build it and They Will Come? Think Again

Bing National Tailgating Championship to Decide America’s Top Tailgaters