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Rodney great idea bad timing up here !!!! our "normal" i.e. 20-24 year old full time students are not in class then the "professsional eduction" i.e. 1 or 2 days per week whilst in full time jobs are in other projects the faculty are on the beach but maybe some could hook up as an individual activity ? good luck vincent Rodney Wolff a écrit : > Dear colleagues, > > I teach a first-year statistics class at QUT in Brisbane, Australia. About > 400-500 students take this class each year. Most are science majors, but > there are also majors in education, information techology, health, law, > arts and business. > > The class covers what you might expect of such a first-year class: types of > data, displaying data, Normal distribution, sampling distributions, tests > of hypotheses, interval estimation, comparisons of means and variances, > experimental design and ANOVA, regression, discrete data and tables, and a > few curiosities. Students have prac classes using Minitab v12. > > Part of the assessment is a group project in gathering and presenting data > (statistical analysis forms a secondary component of the > project). Students work in teams of 4, 5 or 6 over the space of about 7 > teaching weeks, and present their projects as a set of simple webpages. It > is an optional item of assessment: if a student chooses to do the project > then the mark counts about 12% towards their grade only if it is to their > advantage. About half the class chooses to do the project. They conduct a > lot of their collaboration through electronic chat rooms and email, which > would easily allow students outside of QUT to take part. > > Would you be interested in having your students and my students work on > joint projects? > > I believe there would be excellent opportunities for some cultural > learning, as well as providing interesting scenarios for statistical > comparisons. > > Our next semester runs from mid-July through to the end of > October. Students would need to start on their projects in mid- to > late-September. > > If you are interested in taking part, I would be most willing to negotiate > organisation of the project to accommodate your teaching requirements and > class schedule. > > I look forward to hearing from you! > > All good wishes, > > Rodney > > ----- > > Dr Rodney Wolff > Centre in Statistical Science and Industrial Mathematics > School of Mathematical Sciences > Queensland University of Technology > GPO Box 2434 > Brisbane QLD 4001 > AUSTRALIA > > Tel +61 7 3864 5196 > Fax +61 7 3864 2310 -- Vincent Short Chargé de Relations Entreprises / Corporate Relations Groupe ISAIP-ESAIP BP 22 18 rue du 8 Mai 1945 49180 St Barthélemy d'Anjou France TEL + 2 41 96 65 24 Fax + 2 41 96 65 11