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Macroeconomics in practice: using WIKIS for collaborative learning
This project is based on the creation of collaborative wikis for students of Macroeconomics to
elaborate a final work in which they apply the theoretical knowledge learnt in the subject to the real
world. The initiative was implemented during the course 2015-2016 and aimed at 140 students
enrolled in the subject at the Degree of Finance and Accountancy of the University of Cadiz.
To emphasize the link between the theories explained in class and the real world, in previous courses
we have already used news and other resources. With this project, we now introduce the use of wikis,
which consist on the creation of a website to allow collaborative creation and modification of contents
and structure from the web browser. Students were organized in 44 teams, of about 3 members, to
examine data on a certain macroeconomic variable (i.e. inflation or GDP), in a particular geographical
context (i.e. G20 or EU countries). The objectives of the project include: i) to enhance learning and
comprehension of theoretical knowledge and ii) to contribute to the development of skills related to the
subject, such as the skill to apply the acquired knowledge, the skill to analyze and search information
and teamwork. Students’ opinions gathered from a survey at the end of the course suggest that these
objectives have been achieved