About Margaret Brooks
Dr. Margaret Brooks is Chairperson and Professor of Economics at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts, where she has taught for the past 26 years. Margaret earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics at Brown University, completing her doctoral work in the area of Law and Economics – a course she is currently teaching online. Margaret is a strong advocate for online teaching and learning. In addition to Law and Economics, she has taught a wide variety of economics courses in web and hybrid formats since 2001. She presented at the Massachusetts Colleges Online conference about community service and online learning, and last year she wrote a piece for the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled The Excellent Inevitability of Online Courses ( This site may be offline. ) .
Margaret is also the President of the Massachusetts Council on Economic Education, a 501(c) (3) which delivers online and face-to-face K-12 teacher training programs and student competitions. She has been the principal investigator for 30 external grants over the past 12 years, some of which included virtual economics teacher training. She enjoys working with educators in all academic disciplines and sharing ideas about innovative teaching practices.