Thank you so much, Alex and the rest of the group for running this group and enlightening us all on Money Views. 

• Aggressive content drive
  • Finding online materials, resources, and repositories
  • Directly soliciting teachers for teaching materials
  • Exercise & quiz-writing drives
• Community drive:
  • Reach out to your fellow colleagues.
  • Reach out to heterodox and liberal arts colleges in the US.
  • Expand outreach to mainstream universities
  • Collaborate with student organizations (Rethinking, Exploring)
  • Collaborate with professional organizations ( IAFFE, URPE, EEA, etc.)
• Webinars 
  • Respected professors teaching their course.
  • Skillful teachers demonstrating pedagogic techniques. 
• Symposium/conference (multi-day) on education 
• Newsletter
• Promote Books

Feel free to elaborate or comment on any of these points, or introduce new points we’ve overlooked.

Let’s start changing the way economics is taught and learned! 

P.S. - This is a restricted discussion board, accessible only to other registered teachers. Your answers here will not be visible to students or the general public.

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Just testing the reply function

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