Welcome to Microeconomics! I am professor Richard Gosselin and I will be your teacher this semester. This course is taught using an open education resource book published by Rice University's Openstax program and is offered for free via the generous donations of the following benefactors: the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 20 Million Minds Foundation, Maxfield Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and Rice University. You have several choices in using this book. You can either view it online or download a pdf version for free or if you wish you can purchase a low-cost printed and bound version.

To get started in the course click on this link for the course orientation in PowerPoint format if you haven't already done so before the semester began. Econ 2302 Orientation.pptx

Alternatively, you can view and listen to the orientation in video format provided in the modules tab under "Getting Started" or click here now. Next, read the course syllabus which is available right under the "Home" page tab at the upper left-had corner of the screen. When you are finished reading it, click on the Modules tab on the left and start viewing the videos on The Psychology of Learning.

To learn more about OpenStack and why it is being used in this course play the 3-minute video below. This video is not closed captioned, however, you can download the transcript here.

Credits

Textbook

The book for this course is Microeconomics OpenStax which was created by Rice University.

Videos

Images for videos come from the following sources with voice over from Professor Richard Gosselin at Houston Community College who is solely responsible for their content. There are 161 videos for the macroeconomics course with an average run time of about five minutes each. They were produced using three sources - desktop screen capturing via Screenflow which is a product of Telestream, as well as One Button Studio and the Learning Glass for live in-person mini-lectures filmed in a studio. Nearly all the video have been closed-captioned for the hearing impaired using professionals rather than automation. There are also downloaded transcripts embedded for each video and a download feature for users. Houston Community College footed the expense of the closed-captioning service. I would like to thank the college administration as well as Ruben Duran, Senior Media Developer at the college for assisting with this.

OpenStax Macroeconomics, Second Edition

Principles of Economics is adapted from a work produced and distributed under a Creative Commons license

(CC BY-NC-SA) in 2011 by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative. This adaptation has reformatted the original text and replaced some images and figures to make the resulting whole more shareable. This adaptation has not significantly altered or updated the original 2011 text. This work is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

Test Bank

The original test bank provided by Open Stax provided 1333 questions, 1136 were multiple choice and 197 were short answer questions. Under this grant there were no additional short answer questions added however, there are now 1615 questions in the new test bank which is the result of adding 282 questions of the following variety - multiple choice, fill in the blank, numerical questions, multiple drop-down questions, multiple-response questions, matching and formula questions which present each student with different values and parameters. Images in the test bank, unless otherwise noted are licensed under the Creative Commons and most are the product of unknown authors.

Review PowerPoint Slides

These were provided by Intellus Learning Open Courses

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. License. The material for these slides and the image come directly from Microeconomics OpenStax, Second edition.

Discussion Questions

These were authored by Richard Gosselin at Houston Community College and are licensed under the Creative Commons. There are over 70 discussion questions available.

Flash Card Powered by Quizlet

These were authored by Richard Gosselin with a couple of exceptions. They are based on the terms in Macroeconomics, Second edition. They are also licensed under the Creative Commons and are freely distributable. There are 20 such quizzes, one for each chapter.

Excel Exercises and Videos

26 Excel assignments were created including practice assignments and videos to assist students with basic features of Excel which help them create a file, save data, sort data, create tables, line graphs, bar graphs, and pie chart and much more.