I'm going to try out web-based versions of two courses next fall (critical thinking and senior seminar). If I were attempting statistics in this format, I would put serious effort into screening out students at the outset who have trouble learning math from a book and express a need to see a clear in-class presentation in order to grasp the material. There is a questionnaire at University of Alaska which you can use to pre-screen students: http://uaaonline.alaska.edu/prospective/suited/index.html
With BlackBoard or WebCT, you can form study groups, tutoring, and give real-time lectures (plan on setting aside a chunk of time to learn how to do this) but the students need to be comfortable working on their own and getting help through e-mail "conversations."
I'm sure you'll get good help from others who teach stat via the web.
--Dave
Judith Roberts wrote:
I have been asked if I would be interested in developing an on-line
statistics for behavioral sciences course for my community college. I've been teaching the course for 8 years in the traditional lecture
style and loving it, but I greatly intrigued by this opportunity. Also
statistics is a highly impacted course. Most students need to take this
class or other math/statistics courses in order to transfer to the state
university... In addition, the college is very interested in reaching
out to students whose schedules do not allow them much flexibility for
attending regular classes. I would just like to hear what some other
stats and non-stats folks think about teaching a course like this in the
distance learning-computer format. Personally, I'm looking forward to
the challenges of communicating mathematical concepts in this medium,
but I am unsure of the extent to which students will find it workable. Anyone out there doing a distance learning stats?
Judith Roberts
Behavioral Sciences Department
City College of San Francisco
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