A part of 5.2 Lightning Talk session

Asal Aslemand, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Mathematical and Computational Sciences

Motivated by positive effects of incorporating course projects into teaching and learning statistics courses, I included a semester-long collaborative student-generated course project in an online statistics course. Students were randomly assigned to work in small groups (4 to 5 students) within their tutorial section. The course project was scaffolded and encompassed of eight steps to complete throughout the term. The objective of this course project was to provide students with experiential learning opportunity within the course whereby students learned to collaborate with their peers and apply the skills they learned in the course to investigate real-life relevant data regarding the impact of COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, this course project aimed to facilitate the connectivity of course contents and enable students to become confident in using and applying the contents that they learned in the course beyond the course, including in everyday life, and in the remainder of their program of study.