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Economic Forces in American (U.S.) History
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History teaches us that properous advanced national economies like the U.S. share a common institutional framework conducive to creativity, production, and exchange. That institutional framework of individual freedom, rule of law, clearly stated rights to private property, and open competitive markets shapes incentives to encourage material advance. The multiple perspectives approach to historical-scholarship requires viewing events, trends, and developments through a variety of analytical lenses. Often overlooked in traditional history curricula are the insights that the economic way of thinking adds to social, political, and geographic perspectives. Emphasizing the role of institutions, Economic Forces in American History looks at the impact of seven key forces in shaping the development of the United States.

Subject:
Economics
History
Social Science
U.S. History
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Provider:
Foundation for Teaching Economics
Date Added:
07/16/2012
Economic Systems
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This is a collection of downloadable video clips on the theme of Economic Systems, with guiding questions for students. Clips are drawn from the following PBS WIDE ANGLE documentaries: "To Have and Have Not" (2002), "A State of Mind" (2003), "Ladies First" (2004), "1-800-INDIA" (2005), "Border Jumpers" (2005).

Subject:
History
World History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Lecture
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Thirteen/WNET New York
Provider Set:
WIDE ANGLE: Window into Global History
Date Added:
05/19/2006
Economics – Theory Through Applications
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This textbook, Economics: Theory Through Applications, centers around student needs and expectations through two premises: … Students are motivated to study economics if they see that it relates to their own lives. … Students learn best from an inductive approach, in which they are first confronted with a problem, and then led through the process of solving that problem.

Many books claim to present economics in a way that is digestible for students; Russell and Andrew have truly created one from scratch. This textbook will assist you in increasing students’ economic literacy both by developing their aptitude for economic thinking and by presenting key insights about economics that every educated individual should know.

Subject:
Economics
Social Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
The Saylor Foundation
Author:
Russell Cooper, Andrew John
Date Added:
02/18/2015
Economics and E-Commerce
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This course uses theoretical models and empirical studies to help understand the economics behind various internet businesses. We will begin with a discussion of relevant topics from industrial organization (IO) including monopoly pricing, price discrimination, product differentiation, and barriers to entry. The main part of the course will be a discussion of a number of online businesses. In the context of those businesses, we will discuss extensions and applications of the ideas from the first section of the course.

Subject:
Economics
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Ellison, Sara
Date Added:
09/01/2014
Electric Cars: Business
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Electric cars are more than a novel means of mobility. They have been recognized as an essential building block of the energy transition. Fulfilling their promise will imply a significant change in the technical, digital and social dimensions of transport and energy infrastructure. If you want to explore the business opportunities this new market offers, then this is the course for you!

This course explains how electric mobility can work for various businesses, including fleet managers, automobile manufacturers and charging infrastructure providers. The experts of TU Delft, together with other knowledge institutes and companies in the Netherlands, will provide insights into and examples of how innovations have disrupted conventional businesses and created new businesses altogether. This will be explained through various concepts and models, including total cost of ownership models, lean mass production, value chain thinking and business integration.

After completing this course, you will be able to create e-mobility business models and develop a new strategy for your company which includes transition to or incorporation of e-mobility.

The course includes video lectures, presentations and exercises, which are all illustrated with real-world case studies from projects that were implemented in the Netherlands.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
Delft University of Technology
Provider Set:
TU Delft OpenCourseWare
Author:
Ir. F. Rieck
ir. A.E. Hoekstra
ir. R. Steinmetz
ir. R. Wolbertus
prof.dr. G.P. van Wee
Date Added:
02/19/2019
Elijah McCoy  (1844-1929)
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In this history lesson, students learn about the ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit of Elijah McCoy, a prolific inventor who held 57 patents, mostly on designs related to locomotives. Born in Canada and educated in Scotland, he spent most of his professional life in and around Detroit, Michigan, working in the railroad industry while also continuing to produce new inventions. The son of escaped slaves, McCoy overcame early discrimination to become an internationally respected authority in his field. By the time of his death, McCoy was widely celebrated by his contemporaries as a leader and model for Black America in the first generation after Emancipation. This lesson asks students to consider how McCoy’s life experiences led him create such important innovations and ask why his inventions were so highly valued by manufacturers and consumers.

The Woodson Center's Black History and Excellence curriculum is based on the Woodson Principles and tells the stories of Black Americans whose tenacity and resilience enabled them to overcome adversity and make invaluable contributions to our country. It also teaches character and decision-making skills that equip students to take charge of their futures. These lessons in Black American excellence are free and publicly available for all.

Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Case Study
Diagram/Illustration
Homework/Assignment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Woodson Center
Author:
Curriculum Team
Date Added:
07/01/2024
Elijah McCoy (1844-1929) - HS
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In this history lesson, students learn about the ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit of Elijah McCoy, a prolific inventor who held 57 patents, mostly on designs related to locomotives. Born in Canada and educated in Scotland, he spent most of his professional life in and around Detroit, Michigan, working in the railroad industry while also continuing to produce new inventions. The son of escaped slaves, McCoy overcame early discrimination to become an internationally respected authority in his field. By the time of his death, McCoy was widely celebrated by his contemporaries as a leader and model for Black America in the first generation after Emancipation. This lesson asks students to consider how McCoy’s life experiences led him create such important innovations and ask why his inventions were so highly valued by manufacturers and consumers. The Woodson Center's Black History and Excellence curriculum is based on the Woodson Principles and tells the stories of Black Americans whose tenacity and resilience enabled them to overcome adversity and make invaluable contributions to our country. It also teaches character and decision-making skills that equip students to take charge of their futures. These lessons in Black American excellence are free and publicly available for all.

Subject:
Ethnic Studies
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Curriculum Team
Date Added:
06/24/2024
Entorno Empresarial desde la Gestión del Derecho Laboral: Breves Apuntes desde una Perspectiva Académica
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El entorno empresarial permite analizar los factores exógenos y endógenos que influyen en la empresa y la actividad en la que se desenvuelve en el sector industrial, razón por la cual es necesario identificar los elementos del macro y micro entorno que inciden de forma positiva o negativa en la gestión empresarial. En ese sentido el ámbito legal es uno de los factores elementales que el Empresario debe considerar. El entorno empresarial y el derecho laboral son dos aspectos esenciales de la economía moderna que están estrechamente interconectados. El entorno empresarial se refiere a los factores externos que influyen en las operaciones de una organización, mientras que la legislación laboral regula la relación entre empleadores y empleados. Esta obra proporcionará una visión general del entorno empresarial y el derecho laboral, así como analizará los elementos necesarios para actuar de forma ética y legal en la gestión empresarial. El entorno empresarial está determinado por varios factores políticos, económicos, sociales, tecnológicos, ecológicos y legales que marcan el campo de acción de la gestión empresarial. Más aún en ámbitos de derecho laboral, los aspectos legales que intervienen en la relación entre el empleador y el empleado deben gestionarse conforme lo dictamina la normativa vigente, salvaguardando derechos y verificando el cumplimiento de obligaciones, pues el impacto del entorno empresarial en las organizaciones y sus operaciones puede ser significativo.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Editorial Grupo AEA
Date Added:
02/02/2024
Entrepreneurship
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This textbook is intended for use in introductory Entrepreneurship classes at the undergraduate level. Due to the wide range of audiences and course approaches, the book is designed to be as flexible as possible. Theoretical and practical aspects are presented in a balanced manner, and specific components such as the business plan are provided in multiple formats. Entrepreneurship aims to drive students toward active participation in entrepreneurial roles, and exposes them to a wide range of companies and scenarios.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
OpenStax College
Author:
Chris Littel
Michael Laverty
Date Added:
07/12/2022
Entrepreneurship: Choosing a Business
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A lesson about how entrepreneurs identify sources for new business ideas, recognize different business opportunities and identify their own personal goals for starting a business.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Author:
Mary Sederburg
Date Added:
07/05/2018
Experiential learning
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[6]Experiential learning is often used synonymously with the term "experiential education", but while experiential education is a broader philosophy of education, experiential learning considers the individual learning process.
[22] Jacobson and Ruddy, building on Kolb's four-stage Experiential Learning Model[14] and Pfeiffer and Jones's five stage Experiential Learning Cycle,[23] took these theoretical frameworks and created a simple, practical questioning model for facilitators to use in promoting critical reflection in experiential learning.
Moon has elaborated on this cycle to argue that experiential learning is most effective when it involves: 1) a "reflective learning phase" 2) a phase of learning resulting from the actions inherent to experiential learning, and 3) "a further phase of learning from feedback".
[5] It is related to but not synonymous with other forms of active learning such as action learning, adventure learning, free-choice learning, cooperative learning, service-learning, and situated learning.
Kolb transposes four learning styles, Diverger, Assimilator, Accommodator and Converger, atop the Experiential Learning Model, using the four experiential learning stages to carve out "four quadrants", one for each learning style.

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Reading
Date Added:
06/21/2017
Exploring Business
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The author's goals in writing Exploring Business were simple: (1) introduce students to business in an exciting way and (2) provide faculty with a fully developed teaching package that allows them to do the former. Toward those ends, the following features are included in this text:1- Integrated (Optional) Nike Case Study: A Nike case study is available for instructors who wish to introduce students to business using an exciting and integrated case. Through an in-depth study of a real company, students learn about the functional areas of business and how these areas fit together. Studying a dynamic organization on a real-time basis allows students to discover the challenges that it faces, and exposes them to critical issues affecting the business, such as globalization, ethics and social responsibility, product innovation, diversity, supply chain management, and e-business.2- A Progressive (Optional) Business Plan: Having students develop a business plan in the course introduces students to the excitement and challenges of starting a business and helps them discover how the functional areas of business interact. This textbook package includes an optionalintegrated business plan project modeled after one refined by the author and her teaching team over the past ten years.3- AACSB Emphasis: The text provides end-of-chapter questions, problems, and cases that ask students to do more than regurgitate information. Most require students to gather information, assess a situation, think about it critically, and reach a conclusion. Each chapter presents ten Questions and Problems as well as five cases on areas of skill and knowledge endorsed by AACSB: Learning on the Web, Career Opportunities, The Ethics Angle, Team-Building Skills, and The Global View. More than 70% of end-of-chapter items help students build skills in areas designated as critical by AACSB, including analytical skills, ethical awareness and reasoning abilities, multicultural understanding and globalization, use of information technology, and communications and team oriented skills. Each AACSB inspired exercise is identified by an AACSB tag and a note indicating the relevant skill area.4- Author-Written Instructor Manual (IM): For the past eleven years, Karen Collins has been developing, coordinating and teaching (to over 3,500 students) an Introduction to Business course. Sections of the course have been taught by a mix of permanent faculty, graduate students, and adjuncts.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Finance
Management
Material Type:
Case Study
Textbook
Provider:
University of Minnesota
Provider Set:
University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
Author:
Karen Collins
Date Added:
01/01/2012
Exploring the CPA Career with START HERE GO PLACES website
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This lesson/activity is designed for students to explore independently the accounting career and the requirements for obtaining a CPA. Students will use the Start Here Go Places web site fueled by the AICPA. It is a lesson that students could begin on a day when the teacher is absent or it could be done completely outside of class.

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Date Added:
07/17/2019
Financial Decisions - Wants vs. Needs
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Students will learn how their values influence financial decisions. Students will understand the difference between a want and need, and they must take care of their needs first when it comes to making financial decisions. They will also learn how opportunity costs and trade-offs can help them with their financial decision making.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Education
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Lesson Plan
Date Added:
07/10/2019
Financial Statements
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This lesson includes Slide to introduce the concepts of financial statements in accounting. They include definitions and an example to show how the three statements are connected and the order they should be prepared. Two additional activities are included to use as review of concepts -- which accounts go in each statement. It should be paired with a textbook problem in which students practice creating financial statement. I have included a quiz, so if a teacher does not have a text book, they could use that as the practice problem.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Education
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Lesson Plan
Date Added:
07/16/2019
Financial Value of Customer Satisfaction: Using a Lifetime Value Calculator
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This online lifetime value calculator quickly demonstrates the financial value of a satisfied customer.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Economics
Social Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Starting Point (SERC)
Author:
Michelle Kunz
Date Added:
08/28/2012