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Abstract:
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Online education is rapidly growing, including programs in the health sciences at both the undergraduate and graduate-level. Delivering a course fully online can have benefits and challenges, both universal and discipline-specific. This panel will focus on online biostatistics education, primarily to a diverse health sciences audience. A group of biostatisticians with experience developing and delivering fully online biostatistics courses will discuss and debate their approaches. In this interactive format, the session chair will serve as a moderator, prompting the panel with a prepared list of topics to be discussed (e.g., Promoting student-student interaction; Strategies for online assessments; Getting around technology limitations; The biggest hurdle you've encountered). During discussion of each topic, audience participation will be encouraged - both in the form of questions and sharing of ideas. Our hope is that both the audience and the panelists will leave the session armed with new strategies for delivering biostatistics content in an online course and an enthusiasm to implement them.
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