News on a new UK e-mail newsgroup: DATATEACH.
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/datateach/
datateach
An open forum on the use of numeric data in teaching and learning in higher
education for lecturers, students, researchers, and academic support staff.
This list welcomes discussion of general and specific issues regarding
problems and solutions in using national datasets for teaching and learning.
http://datalib.ed.ac.uk/projects/datateach.html
Using Numeric Datasets in Learning and Teaching
The Edinburgh University Data Library, EDINA, the British Library of
Political and Economic Science, The Data Archive and MIMAS have joined
forces in a JISC-funded project to enhance local support of numeric dataset
analysis.
Your participation is needed! Join the Mailbase Open Forum - datateach to
share your views on the issues of using numeric data in learning and
teaching.
Introduction
UK Higher Education is rich in numeric datasets. In the socio-economic
field, for example, there are large-scale government surveys, current and
historical population censuses, inter-national studies, academic surveys,
economic time series, and geographic data. These numeric data are
disseminated in ways that support the work of many academic researchers,
including some postgraduate students.
However, these resources are under-used in the learning and teaching
environment. Despite the potential gain in numeracy, critical thinking, and
knowledge of society by students conducting data analysis at both
postgraduate and undergraduate levels, the integration of numeric data
resources into coursework is frequently frustrated. As expectations about
use of information technology in learning and teaching rise, the barriers
which inhibit the use of this wealth of data in the classroom and in student
projects need to be lowered.
Making effective use of numeric data requires greater skill, more
preparation, and more time than printed materials or bibliographic
databases; and students and teachers require a high level of support. While
some problems can be solved by data providers or by a national approach to
support for learning and teaching, others need to be tackled at the local
level.
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/cgi-bin/intro?datateach
Go to this site to join.
Milo
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