Jon Meer and Steve Wiggins, two economics professors at Texas A&M University, are disrupting microeconomics 101. Rather than teaching the annual course in a lecture hall, the professors will teach it online.
"Principles of Microeconomics" marks one of the first times that a university is moving a key lecture online without offering another choice. And Texas A&M is a hell of a place to test this out—a juggernaut of a university, publicly funded to the tune of $1.5 billion annually and educating some 66,000 a year.Learn more in The college lecture is dying. Good riddance.
