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ELI Spring 2007 Focus Session, March 27–28

ECON201: An Online Game for College Credit

Session Details

Tuesday, March 27, 2007
3:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Innovation Hall A

Session Type: Project Parlor

Speaker(s)

  • Jeffrey K. Sarbaum, Assistant Professor, Economics, University of North Carolina Greensboro

Abstract

ECON201 is an online college course with 3D-like graphics and a complex story that teaches microeconomics through game play. Students lead a group of aliens who crash on a postapocalyptic Earth and must survive. A well-designed game is highly motivating and can employ many characteristics of effective pedagogy.

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