Our web site also features interesting and informative articles on recent global events that you may wish to recommend or require of your students. These articles are short and designed to encourage your students to begin thinking about global economics. Be sure to visit our World Economics News pages while you are here and see which articles would be the most interesting and applicable to your course. The instructor might demonstrate how the game is played at the beginning of a session. This normally takes about 15 to 30 minutes.
Some students can complete the game within one hour the first time they play.
After students become familiar with the game, it normally takes about 20 - 30 minutes to play a standard game to 100 points . As they are playing, the instructor can be available to answer questions. Questions generally pertain to how to play, terminology, and the cause-effect relationships between economic variables. Working with a group of students who are playing The Global Economics Game in a computer lab setting can be one of the most rewarding activities that an instructor can experience. Divide the class into groups.