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Mokhtar Tabari

Teaching

Teaching

Course history, teaching interests, and research on pedagogy.

Teaching philosophy

My teaching is grounded in three commitments. First, meeting students where they are: I teach learners from a wide range of academic, cultural, and professional backgrounds — from first-year undergraduates encountering supply and demand for the first time to working-professional MBAs — and I design my courses so that economic theory becomes accessible without losing rigor.

Second, evidence-based pedagogy. I treat my own teaching as an empirical question. I have designed and tested classroom approaches that combine flipped instruction, peer assessment, generative AI for active learning, and live case studies, and I have published this work in peer-reviewed venues.

Third, connecting theory to the world. I want students to leave a course with the analytical habits to make sense of the economy they will graduate into — using contemporary policy debates, real data, and case material drawn from the firms and markets they will encounter.

Teaching interests

Research on teaching

Selected pedagogical work, including peer-reviewed papers on flipped classroom design, peer assessment, generative AI for active learning, and live case studies.

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AI-Generated Think-Pair-Share (AI-TPS) Framework

A pedagogical framework that uses generative AI to help instructors efficiently produce customized, up-to-date active-learning exercises for principles of economics — reducing instructor preparation costs and making evidence-based pedagogy more scalable.

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Flipped Classroom + Peer Assessment for MBA Economics

An integrated course design developed and tested over two consecutive terms with incoming MBA students. Surveys show improved engagement, deeper understanding, and stronger self-assessment skills.

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03

Live Case Studies in Graduate Business Courses

A randomized control trial design measuring the effect of live business cases on graduate students' confidence in real-world problem-solving, communication, and leadership.

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Courses taught

Independent appointments as instructor of record across five post-secondary institutions in Canada.

2022 – Present
  • ECON 100 Introduction to Economics Principles
  • ECON 111 Principles of Microeconomic Theory Principles

University Canada West

Assistant Professor

2020 – 2026
  • MBAF 504 Business Economics Graduate
  • ECON 104 Principles of Macroeconomics Principles
  • ECON 102 Principles of Microeconomics Principles
  • MATH 101 Business Mathematics Methods
  • MATH 201 Business Statistics Methods
  • MATH 202 Quantitative Decision Making Methods
  • BUSI 100 Introduction to Business Foundations

Thompson Rivers University

Sessional Instructor

2020 – 2022
  • ECON 1900 Principles of Microeconomics Principles
  • ECON 2330 Statistics for Business and Economics Methods

Teaching assistantships

University of Calgary · 2014 – 2020

Teaching assistant for a broad set of undergraduate and graduate economics courses, including graduate-level International Trade, Econometrics I, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Empirical Energy Economics, Economics of Natural Resources, Statistics for Economics, Managerial and Decision Economics, and related applied microeconomics courses.

Teaching materials, references, and syllabi

Sample syllabi, course evaluations, and references are available on request.

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