We are excited to announce that the 2018 Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics (eCOTS) will be held online May 21-25, 2018, and is currently accepting proposals for breakout sessions, virtual posters, and birds-of-a-feather discussions. This year's online conference is hosted by the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE) and focuses on statistics education at all levels and types of learning institutions: secondary school, two-year/community colleges, and four year liberal arts and research universities.
The conference theme is "Data Science for All". Recently, we have seen a rise in data scientist (or related) positions in industry as well as a boom in data science graduate and undergraduate programs. How should statistics educators and students respond? What curriculum should we teach? How should we teach it? Have the goals of statistics education changed? If so, how? This conference is for anyone who teaches or studies statistics or data science. We have already started putting together a diverse set of exciting keynote speakers who work across different areas in statistics and data science education. Sessions will range from ideas for incorporating statistics and/or data science concepts into all curricular levels (K-12, two-year colleges, four-year colleges, graduate programs) to providing interactive data and learning opportunities for all statistics students and educators to building certificates and degree programs that include data science. Panel discussions will include describing data science and statistics education, a look at the state-of-the-art in online statistics education tools, and the future of statistics education, including funding opportunities. Virtual posters will showcase the current broad range of work in "Statistics and/or Data Science for K-16 and Beyond". The conference website will also include a repository of related available statistics and data science resources for attendees as well as the general public. Proposals should be related to the conference theme will be given priority, but proposals related to all aspects of statistics and data science education are welcome. All proposals are due by March 1, 2018. For more details about eCOTS 2018 and to submit a proposal, please visit www.causeweb.org/ecots/ecots18/. If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Nugent at rnug...@stat.cmu.edu. Thanks! Best, Rebecca Nugent eCOTS 2018 Program Chair Nicholas Horton Professor of Statistics Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Amherst College PO Box 5000, AC #2239 Amherst, MA 01002-5000 _______________________________________________ R-sig-teaching@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching