Mark Maier

Education:

Ph.D. Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research

A.B. Oberlin College

2023 American Economic Association Distinguished Economic Education Award https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/distinguished-economic-education-award

Projects:

Co-executive editor College Teaching https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/vcol20

Simulation: The Tax Game http://econ.glendale.edu/index.php

Enhancing economic education at community colleges

National Science Foundation project to promote the use of innovative economic education resources by community college instructors. Click here for more information.

Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics

A National Science Foundation project at Carleton College's Science Education Resource Center. The web site introduces economists to innovative teaching strategies and promotes the sharing of teaching innovations among instructors. Click here for more information.

Just in Time Teaching: Across the Disciplines, and Across the Academy

Co-edited with Scott Simkins. Stylus Publishing, 2009. Click here for more information.

Introducing Economics: A Critical Guide For High School Teachers

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Recent Publications:

Results of a randomized evaluation of team-based learning exercises, International Review of Economics Education (2025)

Teaching the Microeconomics Principles Course, Edward Elgar Publishing (2022) https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/teaching-principles-of-microeconomics-9781800374621.html

Special issue of New Directions for Community Colleges Community College Faculty Engagement with Disciplinary Societies (2021) Click here for special issue contents (link to https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15360733/2021/2021/194 )

Getting started with Team-Based Learning (TBL): An introduction https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220485.2021.1925187 and Team-Based Learning (TBL): Putting learning sciences research to work in the economics classroom https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220485.2021.1925188 Journal of Economic Education 2021

Entrepreneurship: Economic Innovation or Ideological Cover? (Dollars and Sense 2020 http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2020/0720toc.html)

Index of economic freedom: Unrealized pedagogical opportunities. Click here for more information. Journal of Economic Education, 2017