Online/Digital Learning
BE101x - Behavioural Economics in Action
Audience: Open online course
Learning Objective/Description: To learn how to use principles and methods of behavioural economics to change behaviours, improve welfare and make better products and policy. Dilip Soman (course instructor) and I co-designed the course, and I took sole responsibility for course content development from production to delivery.
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Behavioural Economics in Government and Policy: this section features several organizations (including academic, government, and business) that have successfully used the principles of behavioural economics and evidence-based decision making in their work.
Book Nook: this section introduces several recent books that have applied behavioural thinking to different contexts.
Rotman EMBA-HLS Courses on Quercus
Course codes:
RSM2522H 2020: Marketing and Behavioural Economics
RSM5501H 2019: Marketing 1
RSM5501H 2020: Marketing 1
Audience: Rotman Healthcare Executive MBA students
Learning Objective/Description: These courses are in a hybrid course format where 50% of the course content is delivered online on Quercus, and another half in-class.
Talking Head Lecture Video
Research Corner: this section features new and interesting research done by leading academics from U of T and elsewhere.
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Debate and Discussion Board: students watch a video in which several leading scholars or practitioners present their viewpoint on a given topic, and students participate in a discussion forum dedicated to that topic.