So, I take a semester off and everything goes off the rails??? I was on bank leave in Spring 2020, and it pained me to watch what you all had to go through as you shifted to remote instruction. That goes for faculty and students. I love a challenge and wish I had been there in the trenches with you.This semester I am back, teaching 3 sections of Statistics with Support. All are being taught asynchronously. I am fortunate to…
In this post Michael Sullivan and I will share some resources that are built into our MyLab Interactive Statistics courses, as well as some other resources that we have used in our classrooms. Our goal is to provide you with options to make your transition to remote teaching easier. We are happy to help – you can reach out to us by leaving a comment on the blog, contacting me on Twitter @georgewoodbury), or by email (Michael Sullivan, George Woodbury)….
Teaching Intro Stats remotely can be challenging for both instructors and students, especially when you have to switch to remote instruction in the middle of the term with little to no advance warning. Michael Sullivan and I have a suggested solution that will help you and your students thrive in this challenging environment. Pearson is now offering free student access codes to MyLab for the remainder of the term for our online interactive textbook – Interactive Statistics (2e). (Contact your…
On Saturday I spoke about my experience with Flipped Learning in my statistics and algebra classes. You can find my slides, summary, and links here: Link to My AMATYC Talk Information
One of my goals is to be an agile teacher. I also want that for my students. Often students arrive in my class preferring to work with one method that works for every problem of a certain type. I want them to flexible and use the most efficient solution depending on the particular problem. Case in point – quadratic equations. Students who have seen this material before want to use only the quadratic formula, as they know it can be…
I have been away from blogging & Twitter for a little while, and as things have started to slow down for me I will now use this site to get my blog rolling again. Over the last 3+ years I have been working on two projects that I consider to be game changers. First, I have been working on a new online statistics project with Mike Sullivan. It is called Interactive Statistics (Pearson) and I think that it is the…