Some students cheat. Here's how they do it (from least to most frequent) and what you can do about it. Having someone else take the exam Desperate students use desperate measures. The most extreme form of cheating is to have someone else take an exam and pretend to be you. This obviously only works in … Continue reading 6 ways students cheat and how to prevent it

I use the following video clip from Seinfeld to teach about the time value of money. The clip can be found here: http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/Ghent/clips/the%20kiss%20hello.mp4 I show the first 1:51 minutes of the clip and ask "What’s the value of $50 (not) received 53 years ago? The interest rate is 5%." The answer, of course, is FV = … Continue reading Using Seinfeld to teach the time value of money

Getting a CFA charter can set you apart from other finance professionals and give you options within and outside the university. If you teach finance, there's a good chance that you could pass the first of the three CFA exams with only a few days of studying. In fact, I passed level I in December 2008 after … Continue reading Getting the CFA charter while teaching finance

Based on a sample of 120 undergraduate finance courses that were offered in the U.S. in fall 2014, we have compiled a list of the most popular finance textbooks in each subject area (with their market share): Corporate Finance or Financial Management 28%: Ross & Westerfield: (Essentials of/Fundamentals of) Corporate Finance 20%: Berk & DeMarzo: Fundamentals of Corporate … Continue reading And the most popular finance textbook is …

In the summer of 2014, I taught Corporate Finance as a flipped classroom. My 30 students had to read two book chapters every week, and I tested them on the readings in every class with clickers, using questions such as this one: A mortgage where people make the same monthly payment for 30 years is a/an … Continue reading Flipping the finance classroom

Online homework promises many benefits, such as immediate feedback and unlimited practice with different numbers for your students, and no tedious grading for the professor or teaching assistant. Convinced by these promises, I used one of the publishers' online homework sites in the past, but didn't like it at all: Students had to pay $50 for online … Continue reading Better teaching with online homework