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Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics call for proposals

  • 1.  Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics call for proposals

    Posted 01-09-2018 06:03
    We are excited to announce that the 2018 Electronic Conference on Teaching
    Statistics (eCOTS) will be held online May 21-25, 2018, and is currently
    accepting proposals for breakout sessions, virtual posters, and
    birds-of-a-feather discussions.  This year's online conference is hosted
    by the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics
    Education (CAUSE) and focuses on statistics education at all levels and
    types of learning institutions:  secondary school, two-year/community
    colleges, and four year liberal arts and research universities.

    The conference theme is "Data Science for All".  Recently, we have seen a
    rise in data scientist (or related) positions in industry as well as a
    boom in data science graduate and undergraduate programs.  How should
    statistics educators and students respond?  What curriculum should we
    teach?  How should we teach it?  Have the goals of statistics education
    changed?  If so, how?

    This conference is for anyone who teaches or studies statistics or data
    science.  We have already started putting together a diverse set of
    exciting keynote speakers who work across different areas in statistics
    and data science education.  Sessions will range from ideas for
    incorporating statistics and/or data science concepts into all curricular
    levels (K-12, two-year colleges, four-year colleges, graduate programs) to
    providing interactive data and learning opportunities for all statistics
    students and educators to building certificates and degree programs that
    include data science.  Panel discussions will include describing data
    science and statistics education, a look at the state-of-the-art in online
    statistics education tools, and the future of statistics education,
    including funding opportunities.  Virtual posters will showcase the
    current broad range of work in "Statistics and/or Data Science for K-16
    and Beyond".  The conference website will also include a repository of
    related available statistics and data science resources for attendees as
    well as the general public.

    Proposals should be related to the conference theme will be given
    priority, but proposals related to all aspects of statistics and data
    science education are welcome.  All proposals are due by March 1, 2018.
    For more details about eCOTS 2018 and to submit a proposal, please visit
    www.causeweb.org/ecots/ecots18/. If you have any questions, please contact
    Rebecca Nugent at rnugent@stat.cmu.edu. Thanks!

    Best,
    Rebecca Nugent
    eCOTS 2018 Program Chair

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    Nicholas Horton
    Amherst College
    Amherst, MA United States
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