This paper is from Session 9M: Statistics Education with MOOC
which comes under Topic 9: Technology and multimedia in statistics education
Paper 9M2 (Monday 9th, 16:00-17:30)
Developing a massive open online course of introductory statistics in Japan
Presenter
- Fumitake Sakaori (Chuo University, Japan)
Abstract
We developed an introductory statistics course on a massive open online courses (MOOC) in Japan, and held the course several times. This course provides basic knowledge about necessity of statistics, descriptive statistics, and usage of official statistics for wide range of people, mainly business person. Also we provided a (toll) flipped classroom for this course. In this talk, we will compare with the standard university's course in assessment and percentage of correct answers, compare the time series variation of attendants, and discuss efficient flipped classroom and problems of manage a MOOC course.