Using an Online Learning Environment to Teach an Undergraduate Statistics Course: the tutor-web
A learning environment, the tutor-web (http://tutor-web.net), has been developed and used for educational research. The system is accessible and free to use for anyone having access to the Web. It is based on open source software and the teaching material is licensed under the Creative Commons Attri...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1407.0308 2023-05-15T16:49:45+02:00 Using an Online Learning Environment to Teach an Undergraduate Statistics Course: the tutor-web Jonsdottir, Anna Helga Stefansson, Gunnar 2014 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1407.0308 https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.0308 unknown arXiv arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Other Statistics stat.OT Computers and Society cs.CY FOS Computer and information sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2014 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1407.0308 2022-04-01T12:43:54Z A learning environment, the tutor-web (http://tutor-web.net), has been developed and used for educational research. The system is accessible and free to use for anyone having access to the Web. It is based on open source software and the teaching material is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. The system has been used for computer-assisted education in statistics and mathematics. It offers a unique way to structure and link together teaching material and includes interactive quizzes with the primary purpose of increasing learning rather than mere evaluation. The system was used in a course on basic statistics in the University of Iceland, spring 2013. A randomized trial was conducted to investigate the difference in learning between students doing regular homework and students using the system. The difference between the groups was not found to be significant. : Presented at Edulearn 2013, Barcelona Report Iceland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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A learning environment, the tutor-web (http://tutor-web.net), has been developed and used for educational research. The system is accessible and free to use for anyone having access to the Web. It is based on open source software and the teaching material is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. The system has been used for computer-assisted education in statistics and mathematics. It offers a unique way to structure and link together teaching material and includes interactive quizzes with the primary purpose of increasing learning rather than mere evaluation. The system was used in a course on basic statistics in the University of Iceland, spring 2013. A randomized trial was conducted to investigate the difference in learning between students doing regular homework and students using the system. The difference between the groups was not found to be significant. : Presented at Edulearn 2013, Barcelona |
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Using an Online Learning Environment to Teach an Undergraduate Statistics Course: the tutor-web |
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Using an Online Learning Environment to Teach an Undergraduate Statistics Course: the tutor-web |
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Using an Online Learning Environment to Teach an Undergraduate Statistics Course: the tutor-web |
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using an online learning environment to teach an undergraduate statistics course: the tutor-web |
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