Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-15-2000

Keywords

teaching economics, education software, teaching aids, monatary policy simulators

Abstract

Thanks to the internet and server-side technology such as Active Server Pages (ASP), developing and implementing interactive pedagogy is proving quickly to be both user-friendly and relatively inexpensive, requiring of faculty and students only pedestrian programming skills and access to the internet, respectively. The Financial System Simulator (FSS), developed over a summer term, is one such example. The FSS is an internet-based, interactive teaching aid that introduces undergraduate students to the domestic and international consequences of monetary policy. While simulators are common among computer-aided interactive learning devices in today's undergraduate economics curricula the FSS is unique because students, representing nations, interact with each other rather than a computer. Hence, the exercise provides users with real-time outcomes based upon their decisions, as well as the decisions of other students. According to student surveys the game helped students understand domestic and international implications of monetary policy and kept students motivated and interested throughout the learning process.

Publisher

Department of Economics, South Dakota State University

Series Number

2000-6

Number of Pages

20

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