Dear all,
thanks for telling me your experiences how you proceed teaching R. I am
currently giving a five week course teaching R to 16 graduate-level students
consisting of 12 sessions à 1.5 hours. Two weeks have passed during that course
and I was just questioning myself whether my "style" of teaching in front of
the students with a running R session (+editor) is the best way of teaching. [1]
But thanks to the replies I got here, I believe this is a better approach than
teaching in front of the class like in a normal lecture without any "live
display" of R.
I especially liked the idea on John Fox Homepage to give code and the students
have to debug it.
Thanks again for all your replies.
Best,
Roland
[1] What I usually do is to describe what we want to do. Occasionally I remind
them of the statistical background on the blackboard. Then I show them how to
translate it into R. They should enter it as well into R. Then, I am explaining
to them all the details how the code works and what one has to keep in mind. I
distribute a script with all the examples and explanations and additional
exercises (which can be easily done thanks to Friedrich Leisch's
Sweave/Stangle/... function).
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