An Interactive Learning Environment in Statistics : Integrating Multimedia Laboratory Exercises and Courseware into the Statistics Curriculum

该项目采用并实施了新开发的交互式课件，显着利用多媒体到其本科统计程序。这些材料旨在提高学生对基本统计概念的理解和他们的量化素养，同时提供一个灵活、有益和个性化的学习环境。 贝尔实验室与经社部合作编写了有待改编和使用的材料，这些材料已经在经社部的非微积分基础入门统计课程中试用。谁在该部门参加课程的学生来自60多个不同的部门，包括科学，数学，工程和技术（SMET）的学生以及非SMET学生。提供的课程范围从希望满足大学定量推理要求的学生的入门课程到对工程或生命科学应用感兴趣的学生的更专业课程。在这些课程中提供的统计培训为学生提供了一个难得的机会，学习如何批判性地思考对他们来说很重要的定量问题。我们相信，为这些学生提供一个互动和动态的环境中的实验室练习可以是一个非常有效的教育手段。该项目创建了一个实验室环境，教师可以很容易地将这些材料整合到课程中，学生可以在教室环境中使用计算机工作，也可以在教室外使用计算机工作。 沿着将新材料纳入统计方案，项目活动包括编写指南和为教师举办关于使用这些材料的培训班，并研究该软件对学生学习的影响。

This project adapts and implements newly developed interactive courseware that significantly utilizes multimedia into its undergraduate statistics program. The materials are designed to improve students' understanding of basic statistical concepts and their quantitative literacy while providing a flexible, helpful and individualized learning environment. The materials to be adapted and implemented were developed by Bell Laboratories in collaboration with the Department and have already been tested in the Department's basic non-calculus-based introductory statistics course. Students who take courses in the Department come from over 60 different departments, and include science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) students as well as non-SMET students. The courses offered range from introductory courses for students wishing to fulfill the University's quantitative reasoning requirement to more specialized courses for students with interests in applications to engineering or the life sciences. The statistical training offered in these courses provides students a rare opportunity to learn how to think critically about quantitative problems that are and will be important to them. We believe that providing these students with laboratory exercises in an interactive and dynamic environment can be a very effective educational device. This project creates a laboratory environment where instructors can easily integrate these materials into the curriculum, and where students can work using the computer both in a classroom environment and on their own outside of the classroom. Along with integrating the new materials into the statistics program, project activities include preparing guides and conducting training sessions for faculty on the use of these materials, and studying the impact of this software on student learning.