Deborah Nolan|Duncan Temple Lang
Dynamic, Interactive Documents for Teaching Statistical Practice
University of California, Berkeley
summary significant efforts made overhaul introductory statistics courses placing greater emphasis statistical thinking literacy less rules methods procedures advocate broadening increasing effort levels students importantly using topical interesting substantive problems come actual practice statistics want students understand thought process masters context seeing choices different approaches explorations similar open source software think vital work community researchers accessible community educators students experience statistical applications learn approach analyses describe mechanism one collect aspects fragments analysis simulation document computations results reproducible reusable amenable extensions documents contain various pieces information eg text code data exploration paths processed create regular descriptive papers various formats eg pdf html well acting database analysis explore rich new ways researchers instructors readers control various steps processing rendering document example type document supports interactive components student easily control alter inputs computations semiguided fashion gradually delve deeper details go freeform analysis implementation system based widely used standardized frameworks readily supports multiple different programming languages also highly extensible allows adaptation future developments