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Activity Number: 337
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 8, 2006 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #306338
Title: Presenting Statistics Online to Nontraditional Business Students
Author(s): William Livingston*+
Companies: Baker College Center for Graduate Studies
Address: 1116 W. Bristol Road, Flint, MI, 48507-5508,
Keywords: statistics education ; online ; non-traditional business students
Abstract:

The advent of online education has brought about particular challenges for statistics educators. This is particularly true when the audience consists of non-traditional business students who may lack traditional statistics courses in their undergraduate education. This article relates strategies that have proven effective in research and statistics courses offered to non-traditional business students in an online MBA program.

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