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Using an online multimedia group project to introduce students to economics and their learning community

In: Teaching Economics Online

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  • Parama Chaudhury
  • Cloda Jenkins

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Building a learning community is always key to student engagement, but the disruptions of 2020 made this more crucial. In this chapter, we discuss adapting our award-winning First Year Challenge (FYC) student project to an online format with a cohort of nearly 800 students spread around the world. The purpose of FYC was always to familiarise incoming students with the university, the city, our research-based learning model, the study of Economics and their peers. Our challenge in summer 2020 was how to retain these outcomes, in the context of a pandemic, with students and staff largely online across multiple time zones. We changed the design to make the online format effective, without compromising on the objective. This chapter provides an analysis of how harnessing the power of technology for a location-based project make it more inclusive and flexible. FYC online is the preferred approach even when back to on-campus provision.

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  • Parama Chaudhury & Cloda Jenkins, 2024. "Using an online multimedia group project to introduce students to economics and their learning community," Chapters, in: Abdullah Al-Bahrani & Parama Chaudhury & Brandon J. Sheridan (ed.), Teaching Economics Online, chapter 5, pages 64-78, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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