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Innovative Teaching Can be Fun: An Experimental Course Utilizing Interact TV and Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Robert O. Sinclair*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Vermont, Vt.
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Agricultural economists, whether writing for their journals or at their professional meetings, have shown little interest in pedagogy. The American Agricultural Economics Association has held three workshops on the improvement of education in agricultural economics (1963, 1967, and 1973) and published a separate proceedings for each. However, most of the papers at these workshops were devoted to educational philosophy and curriculum development; in other words, to what should be taught and why, rather than to how. An occasional paper in our journal does address technique or method, but most of the verbiage is devoted to such tools as computer assisted instruction (CAI), the use of gaming models, simulation, and other self-instruction methods.

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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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