For international schools teaching AP
AP Economics for schools outside the United States
If your school teaches AP Macroeconomics or AP Microeconomics abroad, you have the same syllabus as a school in Ohio and almost none of the same support around it. No district licence, no local publisher rep, and a review process that was designed for a different country's vendors.
EconLearn is free, needs no student accounts, and works inside whatever LMS you already run. There is nothing to procure, so there is nothing to wait for.
- Nothing to install, nothing to buy
- No purchase order, no vendor onboarding, no data-processing agreement to negotiate. A teacher can use this in tomorrow's lesson. See what is free.
- It lives inside your LMS
- Seventeen interactive graphs embed as an iframe, or install once via LTI 1.3 and every teacher inserts them from the editor. Install in your LMS.
- No student accounts, no student data
- Students are never asked to sign up, and no name, email or identifier is collected from anyone using the graphs. Read the privacy policy.
- Every time zone, no live support needed
- The whole thing is self-serve and asynchronous. Nothing here depends on a US business day, which matters if you are twelve hours away. Start with microeconomics.
If you teach a different syllabus
Plenty of international schools run more than one programme. The economic models are the same; the exam craft and national context are not, and both of these pages say plainly which parts do not transfer.
- IB Economics, mapped to the syllabus topic by topic.
- A-Level Economics, mapped to AQA and Edexcel.
- Self-studying AP Economics, for a student whose school does not offer the course at all.
Questions international schools ask
- Do our students need accounts to use EconLearn?
- No. The graphs, glossary, comparisons, worked calculations and study modules all work with no sign-in at all, which is the point: a school outside the United States should not have to run a data-protection review to let a class look at a supply and demand diagram. Accounts exist only for teachers who want to set assignments and see a gradebook, and even then a student joins with a code rather than an email address.
- Can we put the interactive graphs inside our own LMS?
- Yes, two ways. The quick way is an iframe: copy a snippet and paste it into Canvas, Moodle, Schoology, Google Sites or anything else that accepts HTML. The better way, if you administer the LMS, is the LTI 1.3 install, where an administrator pastes one URL and every teacher in the instance can then insert a graph from the rich content editor. Both are free and neither requires a contract.
- Is the content usable if our students are not native English speakers?
- It was written to be, though not originally for that reason. Definitions are answer-first and capped at about 160 characters, explanations run two to four sentences, and every economic model is available as a diagram you can drag rather than only as prose. A student who is still building academic English can get the model from the graph and use the text to confirm it, rather than needing to parse a page of writing first.
- Does AP Economics content assume US context our students will not have?
- Partly, and that is a feature rather than a problem, because the AP exam assumes it too. The models are universal, but monetary policy is taught through the Federal Reserve and fiscal policy through the US federal budget, exactly as the College Board's course description specifies. If your students are sitting the AP exam, that context is what they are examined on. If you are teaching economics without the AP exam at the end, the IB and A-Level pages map the same graphs onto those syllabuses instead.
- What does it cost, and is there a purchase order process?
- The graphs, glossary, practice questions and study modules are free permanently, for any school, with no purchase order, no invoice and nothing to sign. Paid classroom tools exist for teachers who want assignment tracking and grade export, and they are optional. A school abroad can go from finding this page to having graphs in a lesson without contacting anyone.
- Who runs EconLearn, and will it still be here next year?
- It is built by Jude Wallis, a high school student in California, and it is a real project rather than a class assignment: it is used daily, updated most weeks, and the free tier is the product rather than a trial of it. That is an honest answer to a fair question, and it is why nothing here asks a school to migrate anything or depend on it for grades.
Something here does not fit how your school works? Email jude@econlearn.org. Questions from teachers get answered the same day, wherever they are sent from.