Dr. Parama Chaudhury to Talk This Week on Teaching and Learning

Join Dr. Parama Chaudhury, Senior Teaching Fellow and Co-founder of UCL’s Centre for Teaching and Learning Economics, for two talks sponsored by the the Economics Department and Yale Center for Teaching and Learning.  Her first talk on March 28 will discuss the CORE project, an online, economics curriculum geared toward undergraduate students.  The program reflects recent real world events and practices, and introduces students to strategic behavior, imperfect markets, and the role of institutions from day one, rather than slowly building-up first principles over time as is standard practice in introductory economics courses. In her presentation, Dr. Chaudhury will explain how this challenging new curriculum has been introduced at UCL and how they have developed complementary teaching materials to support lecturers and tutors.

On March 30, Dr. Chaudhury will discuss how she uses team-based learning (TBL) in her first year undergraduate class which introduces students to research in economics. Staying true to the philosophy of TBL, her presentation will be a show-and-tell-and-listen rather than a standard seminar, where she will ask attendees to participate in the kind of activities that would take place in a classroom environment.

For more information on each event’s time and location, please visit the Economics Department events page.