Archive for the ‘education’ Category

The Web in action: University of California protest

November 18, 2009Jon Brooks Comments Off

This is pretty dramatic. The University of California Office of the Student Regent is Twittering the UC Regents meeting in which the University system’s overseers are expected to vote for a tuition hike. As noted in our last post, students have called for a three-day strike to protest the increase. Last Tweet, 26 minutes ago: [...]

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California student strike

November 18, 2009Jon Brooks Comments Off

California is suffering a severe budget crisis, and the state university system is taking its lumps. The University of California Regents are meeting over the next three days to vote on student fee hikes to cover budget shortfalls. From today’s San Francisco Chronicle: Meeting in Los Angeles, the regents are expected to approve a 32 [...]

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Economics lectures online

August 28, 2009Jon Brooks Comments Off

Feel like auditing some economics courses without leaving your room? University of Oregon economics professor Mark Thoma has posted videos of his course lectures online. The courses are Monetary Theory and Policy, History of Economic Thought, and Econometrics. Watch them at your leisure, but in the interest of class decorum try not to do so [...]

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Musical economics

August 5, 2009Jon Brooks 1 Comment »

Seen this one yet? Over at the free market-oriented Division of Labour blog, a section called From ABBA to Zeppelin “offers a variety of song lyrics that instructors of economics may find useful in teaching economics. Each post includes a selection from the song’s lyrics and a brief assignment for students.” From the site: “Career [...]

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