Mark Maier
Initial Publication Date: February 23, 2009
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.
He 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 (with Jennifer Imazeki); and City Unions: Managing Discontent in New York City.
Related Pedagogical Projects
Over the past decade Mark has been PI or co-PI on seven National Science Foundation projects, including five in collaboration with the Science Education Resource Center. Beginning in August 2008, Mark has worked with Scott Simkins, Maier, KimMarie McGoldrick and Cathy Manduca on Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics, 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). In November 2010, Mark and Cathy began another NSF project, DUE #1043245 - Adapting effective outreach and workshop practices to improve community college instruction and since May 2012, Mark has worked with Heather Macdonald and Katherine Rowell on DUE # 1238279 - Supporting community college faculty across the STEM disciplines. Most recently, Mark is co-PI with Phil Ruder and Scott Simkins on the NSF project Promoting Adoption of Team-Based Learning Pedagogy in College Economics Classes DUE 1712295.
Award Number:1712295;