Are you a Professor Coping with Lockdown? Here's an Online Course to Help You Teach Stats
Laura Roberts
Dr. Laura Roberts has 30+ years experience as a dissertation mentor, successfully leading over 300 students to defend their theses.
Dear Colleague,
In your wildest dreams, could you ever have imagined the changes and challenges educators like us are dealing with? Even if you're already teaching in an online or hybrid environment, you may be interested in additional online resources for your quantitative methods. Many of us are feeling unprepared to make the quick pivot to online teaching that universities are asking of us. Maybe you are, too.
I've spoken to many statistics professors in the past few weeks as to what we can do to help ourselves and our students maintain their interest and retention in statistics when we can no longer conduct regular classes. I've come up with a solution and I'd like your feedback on it.
College Statistics for Math-Anxious Students is an online course that can be used to supplement any introductory statistics course you are offering. You could also use it as a stop-gap measure to give you more time to get your own course up and running. I originally developed it because so many of us are scrambling to adjust to the changes in our world.
What do you think of the course philosophy in the welcome video? Do you think it will be helpful for students with math anxiety? Here is the welcome video:
If this looks like the kind of help your students can use and if you want to take a deeper dive into the full series, you can access it at the following link. And because I'm aware how educators are buying class tools with their own money, I've added this coupon that reduces the cost by 70%. (The coupon is valid until August 11.)
?I designed the course with specific students in mind; undergraduates majoring in math and graduate students in master's or doctoral programs in the social sciences, especially for Educational Leadership students.
Based on what you've seen, if you think this kind of support can be valuable for your students you can forward the link (above) to them.
Also, I would very much appreciate your taking a few minutes to write a review of the lessons, even if you only look at a few. Thanks in advance for your feedback.
You can contact me at [email protected] or by phone at (215) 527-5872 (Eastern time zone, US), or, simply reply to this email. I look forward to hearing from you and getting your thoughts.
Stay well!