Since its launch four years ago, the university’s Clayton Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance has produced more than 25 hours of podcast and webinar content featuring leaders, analysts, and trade officials who help illuminate how goods and services move around the globe.
Now that content is available on-demand as a “Trade Policy Toolkit” for educators in a variety of disciplines looking to supplement learning materials in their classrooms.
“The podcast and webinar formats allow us to dive into a subject in a way that is accessible to listeners,” said Jill O’Donnell, Yeutter Institute director and creator and host of the institute’s Trade Matters podcast. “When professors teaching economics, agriculture, and global studies began telling me they were assigning Trade Matters episodes in their classes and using webinars for extra credit opportunities or Honors student projects, I realized we could organize the content as a menu of options for college and secondary school instructors to easily select the programming that fits into their classes.”
The toolkit includes 29 podcast episodes and 10 webinars organized into nine categories ranging from “Trade Fundamentals” and the “World Trade Organization” to “China,” “Trade Shocks,” and “U.S. Public Opinion on Trade.” The toolkit will be updated regularly as new content is released.
“All discussions are designed with learning in mind, not just imparting information,” O’Donnell said. “This means that we are very deliberate about clearly stating what we are trying to understand and defining any trade jargon before going deeper into a subject.”
The programming approach is to take conversations behind and beyond the news headlines to illuminate the context in which trade developments are taking place, resulting in content that has lasting relevance.
Instructors can access the toolkit on the Yeutter Institute website.
Contact Jill O’Donnell at jodonnell2@unl.edu or 402-472-2119 for additional information about the toolkit.
More details at: https://yeutter-institute.unl.edu