Adam - OER Item (Statistics Problems/Project)
Overview
OER Fundamentals are invited to remix this course planning template to design and share their OER project plans, course information and syllabus, and reflection.
Project Planning
My OER Goals & Purpose: The location (here) of countless OER resources to get ideas from when creating/remixing my own. My next steps are to outline the context for which I want to build a supportive OER.
My Audience: For now, online, community college-level, mostly business and nursing students of statistics. From past experience, they need a lot of scaffolding and prefer short-winded explanations and visuals.
My Team: Linda Neff, Kate Kozak, and maybe some of my other colleagues. Within my project, none of them have an official role, but I'll look to them as advisors/supervisors.
Existing Resources: This one seems like a great starting place!
New Resources: ... I don't know what this means.
Supports Needed: Yeah, I have tons of research to do still. But first! Complete this webinar and work on the OER Training with my college, including:
Introduction to OER · Considerations for Using or Creating OER · Copyright and Open Licensing · Creative Commons Licenses · Evaluating OER · Finding Open Content · Repositories and Search Tools · Ancillary Resources · OER in Print · Teaching with OER · Open Pedagogy · Considerations for Using Open Pedagogy · Centering Diversity and Inclusion · Planning and Completing Your Project · Tools and Techniques for Creating OER · Accessibility and Usability
Our Timeline: No short-term deliverables yet since I haven't created a timetable. The hard deadline for the final product is August 2024, but ideally May 2024 for my (expected) summer class.
OER Item
[Title image: Photo by Chris Liverani on Unsplash.]
MAT 160/BUS 232 (Intro Stats) Project
Attached: Grant plan timeline
Learning outcomes:
- (ILO) Critical & Creative Thinking: Students will use a variety of inquiry methods, resources, and reasoning skills to think critically and creatively.
- (ILO) Communication Skills: Through various modes of expression, students will be able to express and exchange ideas to increase knowledge and foster understanding.
- (ILO) Ethical and Civic Values: Students will demonstrate a better understanding of themselves and others to clarify individual and societal responsibilities, needs, and values.
- (ILO) Core Skills: Students will become more adaptable and seek new information to solve problems. They will make academic, major life, and career choices based on an assessment of their interests, values, skills, and abilities. They will acquire the employability skills necessary to be effective in their career.
- (AGEC) Promote intellectual exchange as an essential part of the learning process.
- (AGEC: Math) Analyze polynomial, exponential and logarithmic functions.
- (AGEC: Math) Employ the concepts of mathematical modeling in a variety of application problems.
- (AGEC: Math) Develop critical thinking skills through situational analysis and problem solving.
- (CLO) Use statistical methods to collect, organize, analyze and interpret numerical data;
- (CLO) create and interpret graphs of data;
- (CLO) calculate and use measures of central tendency and variability;
- (CLO) calculate probabilities for events or combinations of events;
- (CLO) predict the outcomes of an event;
- (CLO) explain and use the Central Limit Theorem;
- (CLO) estimate population parameters for one and two populations;
- (CLO) recognize a variety of probability distributions;
- (CLO) interpret confidence intervals;
- (CLO) test hypotheses;
- (CLO) determine and interpret linear regression, correlation, and coefficient of determination;
- (CLO) solve application situations using a variety of statistical methods;
- (CLO) use technology to solve a variety of statistical applications;
- (CLO) interpret case studies; and
- (CLO) discuss ethical issues in statistics.
Reflection
I plan to publish a lot more of my content as OER even if I'm insecure about it since people might find it valuable! I need to start finding a way to curate my old stuff into at least reasonably shareable stuff. But first! I need to prep for spring (leaving breadcrumbs for myself) and get going on this OER grant. I found a cool full course which is probably a good starting place for making my own, but also makes me feel uneasy about starting from scratch instead of just scaffolding from theirs. Alas!