Renewing Economics studies in the face of crisis: a digital and real learning experience
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There is a feeling of skepticism and apathy among the college students in Economics due to the excessive abstraction and mathiness into the economic models, under the mainstream methods based on designed troubles and modelizations; for that reason, this paper advocates for heterodox approaches and procedures more realistic, digital, applied and professional. In particular, it shows a teaching innovation project which has helped to improve the Macroeconomics learning (in reconnection of Economics with other Social Sciences), and for students re-engagement. In this project, with these toolkits, the students have had continuous access to practical documents and data from the online platform FRED® (Federal Reserve Economic Data), published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, to promote the quality and effectiveness of training from the study of practical cases based on real economic data. In this sense, this paper presents as an example the study of the Phillips curve and its evolution in recent decades. Given the repercussion achieved by this educational initiative, it has begun to be applied at more advanced levels, which involve the use of other related databases such as ALFRED® or FRASER®.
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