IUSE Collaborative Research: Data Computing for All: Developing an Introductory Data Science Course in Flipped Format

这个项目，数据计算为所有：开发一个介绍性的数据科学课程翻转格式，解决了两个当前的问题：需要更多的学生熟悉在各种情况下使用数据和教学材料的需要，以支持课程在“翻转课堂”格式。 翻转课堂颠倒了学生们花费时间的方式。 而不是有信息给他们在课堂上，然后走开去练习使用新的知识，通过自己的家庭作业问题，学生上课前获得的信息，然后练习使用它，而课程讲师在场，以帮助误解和复杂性。 这使得教师能够解决小群体学生遇到的问题，而不是在不知道谁理解什么的情况下向一大群学生讲课。 数据科学对于基因组测序和客户数据分析等各种应用至关重要。 几乎每个学科都需要大规模的数据处理，需要结合计算和统计。更具体地说，本课程不仅解决了计算机和统计科学的重要需求，而且还解决了所有科学，商业，医学和工程领域的重要需求。对有效利用大量数据和新兴数据科学领域的依赖正在改变各部门组织的运作。该项目不仅将在STEM学科的一个重要领域提供新课程，而且还将导致有价值的教育研究。随着越来越多地使用翻转课堂学习模式，人们对其普遍性提出了质疑。 它总是正确的方法吗？ 用这种方式准备教材来教授一门课程有多难？ 该项目将在为具有最低背景的学生开设的新数据科学课程的背景下解决这些问题。 该项目正在两个不同类型的机构的计算机科学和统计系中开发。 这两个机构都有使用翻转方法的经验，并共同拥有数据科学的专业知识。 课程材料以及评估结果将更好地使其他机构能够考虑在其课程中纳入入门数据科学计算。

This project, Data Computing for All: Developing an Introductory Data Science Course in Flipped Format, addresses two current issues: the need for more students to be familiar with the use of data in a variety of contexts and the need for instructional materials to support coursework in the "flipped classroom" format. The flipped classroom reverses the way time is spent by students. Instead of having information given to them in the classroom and then going away to practice using the new knowledge by themselves through homework problems, the students get the information before class time and then practice using it while the course instructor is present to help with misunderstandings and complexities. This allows the instructor to address the problems encountered by small groups of students, rather than lecturing to a large group without knowing who understands what. Data science is essential for applications as diverse as genome sequencing and customer data analysis. Nearly every discipline has need of large scale data handling that requires computing and statistics in combination. More specifically, this course addresses an important need not only in computer and statistical sciences, but in all science, business, medical and engineering areas in general. The reliance on the effective use of vast amounts of data and the emergent field of data science is changing the operation of organizations across sectors. This project will not only provide new course in an important area in the STEM disciplines, but will also result in valuable educational research.With the growing use of the flipped classroom model of learning, questions arise about its generalizability. Is it always the right approach? How difficult is it to prepare materials to teach a course in this way? This project will address these questions in the context of a new data science course for students with minimal background. The project is being developed in computer science and statistics departments at two different types of institutions. Both institutions have experience using the flipped approach and together have the expertise for data science. The course materials as well as the evaluation results will better enable other institutions to consider including introductory data science computing in their programs.