Derrill Watson POLICY SEMINAR Virtual Event - Food Policy Research and Capacity Development in Eurasia Co-Organized by the Eurasian Center for Food Security (ECFS), World Bank Group, and IFPRI DEC 2, 2020 - 07:30 AM TO 09:00 AM EST

1. THE USE OF CASE STUDIES
IN IMPROVED TEACHING
DERRILL D. WATSON II, ASSOC. PROF. OF ECONOMICS
TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY

2. TWO PARADIGMS
• What will I do today?
• Talk
• Audiovisual
• Demonstrate

3. TWO PARADIGMS
• What will I teach today?
• What will I do today?
• Talk
• Audiovisual
• Demonstrate
• What will my students do
today?
• Discuss
• Practice
• Teach each other

4. SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP APPROACH
• Make students entrepreneurs who find creative solutions for the complex social
problems facing their countries.
• Cases engage students with the real world
• Students grapple with political, economic, scientific dimensions of hunger and
food policy
• Cases used around the world

5. 2016-2018
• Intensive Fish Farming -> Depletion of
Water Resources in Armenia
• Traditional Livestock Sector of the Kyrgyz
Republic
• Development of Organic Agriculture in
Russia
• Political Economy of Wheat Pricing in
Uzbekistan
2020
• Urban Food Security during COVID-
19 in Uzbekistan
• COVID-19’s Impact on Fruits and
Vegetables in Armenia
• Russian Wheat Export Regulation
during COVID-19
ECFS CASES

6. WINTER SCHOOL JAN 2020
“I would like to thank all the
organizers, our wonderful and
knowledgeable lecturers, for such
an effective training that I have
already used in my classes.” –
Participant feedback
Year 2 training begins next week