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Ben Smith

Ben Smith is an Associate Professor of Economics and the Economics Department Chair at the University of Nebraska - Omaha. Dr. Smith’s education research portfolio includes learning measurement issues, student incentives, and non-traditional teaching techniques. Additionally, Dr. Smith develops free education software tools that allow instructors to put education theory into practice in their classroom; these tools, collectively, are used more than 5000 times per week. Popular tools include: Grade Nudge, Create Random Assignments, and Assessment Disaggregation.
Recent education software work supports instruction across the entire College. As the developer of the College early alert and tutor tracking system, Dr. Smith’s work indirectly incentivizes thousands of students per semester using research-supported techniques.

Dirk Mateer

Dirk Mateer is a Distinguished Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Economics in the Movies (2005), Essentials of Economics (2015), and Principles of Economics (2020). His website: dirkmateer.com houses over 500 media assets that relate economics to popular culture. Dirk is also an award-winning instructor. He has been featured in the "Great Teachers in Economics" series and he was also the inaugural winner of the Economic Communicator Contest. While he was at Penn State, he received the George W. Atherton Award, the university’s highest teaching award, and was voted the best overall teacher in the Smeal College of Business by the readers of Critique Magazine. While at the University of Arizona, he received the best large class lecture award in the Eller College of Management and the University’s Koffler Teaching Prize, a quadrennial award for his contributions in economic education.

Brian O’Roark

Brian O’Roark is currently University Professor of economics at Robert Morris University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University. Along with being the author of dozens of scholarly articles in areas such as public finance, the economics of information security, and economic education, O’Roark serves as the editor for the Journal of Economics Teaching. In 2014, he won the Mid-Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration Innovative Teaching Award. At Robert Morris University, he has won the Undergraduate Teaching Innovation Award and the President’s Award for Outstanding Teaching. His textbook, Essentials of Economics, will be out in the second edition in 2021, and his book Why Superman Doesn’t Take Over the World: What Superheroes Can Tell Us About Economics is available from Amazon and other fine booksellers. In his spare time, he enjoys running, swimming and gardening.

Wayne Geerling

Wayne Geerling is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Monash University. In a career spanning almost 15 years, Wayne has established a reputation as an internationally-renowned teaching specialist, challenging the popular caricature of Economics as a “dismal science” by showing how Economics can be engaging, memorable and highly relevant to students. Wayne has taught more than 30,000 undergraduate students in his career, specializing in large undergraduate units of up to 1,000 students. Wayne’s contribution to innovation and teaching excellence has been recognized with several teaching awards at the Department, Faculty, University and National levels, in Australia and America. Wayne has also made a significant contribution to the field of economics education. He is co-author of The Ultimate Guide to Teaching Macro/Microeconomics (2014, 2017, 2020) and Bazinganomics (a website based on the TV sitcom “Big Bang Theory”) and regularly publishes in peer-reviewed journals. Wayne currently serve as Associate Editor of the Journal of Economics Teaching, a journal with an established reputation for transmitting innovative teaching ideas to teachers of economics at all levels.

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