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Activity Number: 295 - Innovative Approaches to Teaching Biostatistics Partially or Fully Online
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences
Abstract #329058 Presentation
Title: Adult Learners , a Flipped Classroom, and an Online Biostatistics Course: a Recipe for Disaster?
Author(s): Martina Mueller* and Mary Dooley
Companies: Medical University of South Carolina and Medical University of South Carolina
Keywords: adult learner; online teaching; flipped classroom
Abstract:

Teaching statistical concepts to health science students who have a mathematics aversion is challenging. Combined with the needs of adult learners and an online environment, this task becomes even more complex. We implemented a flipped classroom concept in an online statistics course for Nursing PhD to address this complex situation. Two statistics courses were taught in fall 2017 and spring 2018, and strategies have been adapted based on student feedback obtained throughout both semesters. Success was measured using scores obtained from the electronic evaluations system for learning (E-value) as well as de-identified comments provided by the students. The results will be used to further develop the flipped classroom concept in the adult learner/online environment for the subsequent cohort of students.


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