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

本项目采用新开发的交互式课件，将多媒体应用到本科统计学课程中。这些材料旨在提高学生对基本统计概念的理解和他们的定量素养，同时提供一个灵活、有用和个性化的学习环境。拟改编和执行的材料是由贝尔实验室同该部合作编写的，并已在该部的基本的不以微积分为基础的统计入门课程中进行了检验。在该系学习课程的学生来自60多个不同的院系，包括科学、数学、工程和技术（SMET）学生以及非SMET学生。提供的课程包括为希望完成大学定量推理要求的学生开设的入门课程，以及为对工程或生命科学应用感兴趣的学生开设的更专业的课程。这些课程提供的统计训练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，在互动和动态的环境中为这些学生提供实验室练习是一种非常有效的教育手段。这个项目创造了一个实验室环境，教师可以很容易地将这些材料整合到课程中，学生可以在课堂环境中使用计算机，也可以在课堂外自己使用计算机。除了将新材料整合到统计程序中，项目活动还包括编写指南，为教师提供使用这些材料的培训课程，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.