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Abstract:
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While the COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruption to teaching plans, it has also provided an opportunity to develop teaching practice. This talk will describe the experience of moving an introductory statistics course online in response to COVID. Previously, our statistics teaching for graduate students in the Health Sciences was built around content delivery and skills practice in face-to-face teaching sessions, supplemented with online support materials. The pandemic gave both the opportunity and the impetus to replace the existing provision with a course built around asynchronous online learning. Working in partnership with e-learning specialists, the Articulate Rise platform was used to create a course which aims to help students to become critical consumers of statistically-based results in biomedical and health research. Challenges included engaging students from a wide range of different disciplines, supporting asynchronous learning with educator contact, creating mathematical content in an e-learning authoring tool and conducting authentic assessment remotely. Feedback from students and staff is reviewed to inform the continued evolution of practice.
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