Economics

It's a battle of the ideas. Watch. Read. Be critical. Argue. Figure things out.

dijous, 31 de gener del 2013

Teaching Pills 4 - Applied Financial Maths: the implicit grant of the ICO student loan

Many overgraduate students in Spain have applied during the last 4 years to a new kind of student loan, called ICO Renta Universidad, in order to complete their studies with a Master's Degree. This is pretty new in the Spanish system, despite being very common in other Western countries, specially in the UK and the USA. In this particular case the loan had quite favourable conditions: a 3 years grace period (up to 6 years, under certain circumstances),...

diumenge, 20 de gener del 2013

Teaching Pills 3: teaching through ICT

"In God we trust; all others must bring data" Dr. W. Edwards Deming In my last TP post I wrote about how you can teach with almost no material resources and in this one I'd like to show just the opposite, how you can use in a sensible way some of the huge amount of resources currently provided by the ICT. There are many websites, blogs and even apps which may help you to prepare materials, to decide teaching strategies and to support your work....