Asynchronicity, Access, and Content: Teaching Economics in a Shifting Landscape

The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated certain trends that were already incipient in the content and delivery of higher education, including open-access resource creation and asynchronous or livestreamed instruction. In this chapter, we focus on instruction in microeconomics, and describe three innovations—the Curriculum Open-Access Resources in Economics (CORE) Project, the National Education Equity Lab, and Outlier—that are reinforcing and crystallizing these effects to bring accredited courses to audiences beyond existing elite institutions.