Abstract #301893

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JSM 2003 Abstract #301893
Activity Number: 132
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 4, 2003 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #301893
Title: Developing an Online Introductory Course in Statistics: Challenges and Opportunities
Author(s): Oded Meyer*+ and Ross Strader and Candace Thille
Companies: Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University
Address: Dept. of Statistics, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213,
Keywords: online ; introductory ; web-based
Abstract:

Carnegie Mellon University is developing a web-based learning environment as an alternative to, or supplement for, a large lecture format introductory-level statistics course. There are several challenges and opportunities with developing such a learning environment; some of which are general to web-based learning design and some of which are specific to the domain of statistics. The course design is a result of collaboration among several statistics faculty, cognitive scientist and experts in human computer interaction. The paper will present the challenges, opportunities, and innovations of creating a web-based statistics learning environment, some highlights from the discourse about statistics and teaching statistics that the collaborative process brought forth, and the results of the pilot of using the web-based learning environment to teach EDA.

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