Title:	THE BEST PRACTICES OF E-LEARNING FOR ECONOMICS - THE WEBPAGE FOR ECONOMICS PRINCIPLES
Author(s):	Luísa Margarida Cagica Carvalho , Boguslawa Maria Barszczak Sardinha
ISBN:	972-9027-53-6
Editors:	Pedro Isaías
Year:	2002
Edition:	Single
Type:	Poster/Demonstration
First Page:	851
Last Page:	851
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	The goal of the lessons of economics principles is to increase the economics literacy of students. In current society, is important that people have the knowledge, understanding and skills to make informed economic choices. If economic literacy is low, this has an impact on peoples, daily lives, such as the most common source of personal income and the factors to consider when making purchasing decisions. Portugal is one of the countries of European Union where the economic literacy is worse. So, maybe in future, online learning will be a way to tackle this problem. Online learning can be used to create programmes to meet the needs of the people of a country or in a company. The work-place programmes need to be tailored to individual, organizational and job-related needs. This is the key for work place education to be successful. It is with this in view that we creating a web page for the subject of economics principle in Higher School of Management in Setúbal [ESCE]. The teachers initiated this work in 2001, and the web page will be available in 2002 October. There was made the inquiry designed to the economics students, it shown that the students have a huge problem with Economics in their first semester in school. In order to respond to those necessities, it was started to prepare another way to help the students, creating support lessons of Economics by the Internet. The purpose is to make possible new learning environments, that means, give students with different learning styles, additional entry points into economics and multiple ways to practice economics concepts It is important to provide a good quality and presentation on the economics support page in order to : Layout/Design; Graphics; Information; Navigation/Links; Following classroom Guidelines. The ESCE support economics page, ought to have on the front page the map of the page and many helpful link to other pages and to relative pages. It is important to improve this page in order to respond better to the necessities of economic students. To achieve this goal we propose the evaluation questionnaire available in page as the separate link. On online curses it’s important to exist a specialist in different area like: educators, which respond on the education contents and administrators whose respond on functional contents of courses. In our reality the teacher of economics will respond on both area of responsibility. This is the inconvenient in taking into account the availability of teaches and the lack of knowledge of technological skills. With the scarcity of recourses it’s important to invest in technological accompaniment too. Our research indicates that students perceive, that this possibility can be an advantage to complement traditional methodologies. These advantages include saving them time, better management of their schedules, more flexibility and ease of access for worker students in order to improve the apprenticeship of economics. Future research should include all the students who attend Principles of Economics and the results of utilization of support economics principle page.
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