Educational Goals
From Ricardian Explorer:
- Calculate opportunity costs and relative prices
- Understand absolute and comparative advantage
- Understand the role comparative advantage plays in explaining trade flows
- Understand and calculate gains from trade
From Palenque
- Try and think within the mindset of the ancient Maya
- Familiarize themselves with the site to the extent that they are able to write about specific details,
- Integrate information generated from a number of different disciplines.
Links
The Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning (SCIL) archives Tomorrow's Professor's mailing list. On that list is an interesting post that provides samples: http://sll.stanford.edu/projects/tomprof/newtomprof/postings/170.html
The IDEA (Instructional Design for Education and its Assement) project has a handy instructional objective helper that it made (MadLibs for educators!) http://www.cogsim.com/idea/forms/Inst_obj2.htm