Mark Maier
Department of Economics
Glendale Community College
mmaier@glendale.edu
Phone: 818-240-1000 Ext. 5468
Fax:818-549-9436
Background Information
Mark Maier teaches economics at Glendale Community College (California). He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research in 1980.
Between 2001 and 2004 Mark was a scholar in the CASTL program at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He has published several articles on cooperative learning and is the author of four books: Just-in-Time Teaching: Across the Disciplines, Across the Academy(with Scott Simkins), (Introducing Economics: A Critical Guide for Teaching (with Julie Nelson), The Data Game: Controversies in Social Science Statistics; and City Unions: Managing Discontent in New York City.
Related Pedagogical Projects
Over the past decade Mark and Scott Simkins (North Carolina A&T State University) have led two National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded projects exploring the adaptability of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) discipline teaching innovations in economics: DUE #0088303 - Developing and Implementing Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT) Techniques in the Principles of Economics Course and DUE #0411037 - Implications of STEM Discipline Research for Instructional Innovation and Assessment in Economic Education. In August 2008 Simkins, Maier, KimMarie McGoldrick (Univ. of Richmond) and Cathy Manduca (Carleton College) were awarded an NSF grant to develop a national economics pedagogic portal highlighting innovative pedagogical practices developed both inside and outside of economics for use in undergraduate economics courses (DUE #081738 - Developing an Economics Pedagogic Portal). The result is this Starting Point-Economics site. In November 2010, Mark and Cathy began another NSF project, DUE #1043245 - Adapting effective outreach and workshop practices to improve community college instruction.
