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295 – Innovative Approaches to Teaching Biostatistics Partially or Fully Online
Adult Learners, a Flipped Classroom, and an Online Biostatistics Course: A Recipe for Disaster?
Martina Mueller
Medical University of South Carolina
Mary Dooley
Medical University of South Carolina
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.