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Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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110
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 1, 2011 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Education
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| Abstract - #300415 |
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Title:
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Beyond the Textbook
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Author(s):
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Webster West*+ and Rebekah Isaak*+ and Christopher Barr*+
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Companies:
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Texas A & M University and University of Minnesota and Harvard University
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Address:
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Dept of Statistics , College Station, TX, 77843, 56 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, Dept of Biostatistics, Cambridge, MA, ,
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Keywords:
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textbooks ;
teaching ;
statistical education
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Abstract:
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In today's world a textbook that has been written and printed years before it reaches studdents taking a statistics course often containes unused material and rapidly become out of data. The internet and electronic media offer newer, customizable text materials for students, The panelists in this session will discuss new approaches to creating or using textbooks in teaching introductory statistics. Some of the alternatives to traditional textbooks disucssed incluce on-line texts, student-created texts, searchable Wikipedia-type texts, and collections of online readings.
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