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Author: Rhys C Jones

Rhys is a Professional Teaching Fellow in Statistics and Director of the Science Scholars Programme at the University of Auckland.

Collaboration and catnaps

November 13, 2020 Rhys C Jones

An overview of the recent talk I gave at the Sage event on supercharging your quantitative online teaching.

Prep for success

October 16, 2020 Rhys C Jones

Some tips for alleviating the stress students feel towards tests and exams.

Let’s talk about it

September 25, 2020 Rhys C Jones

Some tips on how to get conversations flowing in large lectures or online.

Is context king?

September 4, 2020September 25, 2020 Rhys C Jones

Practical points to think about when deciding on contexts to use for teaching statistical concepts, and ideas to help you deliver an engaging and motivating data exploration!

Near, far, wherever you are, data exploration will go ON!!!

August 14, 2020 Rhys C Jones

Teaching remotely – take two!

Feel good hooks

July 10, 2020July 10, 2020 Rhys C Jones

A summary of the interactives I developed to engage and motivate my intro stats students during lockdown.

Building identity with large student cohorts

June 12, 2020July 2, 2020 Rhys C Jones

Building cohort identity to facilitate an improvement in students’ engagement and motivation.

Designing experiments en masse

May 29, 2020August 9, 2020 Rhys C Jones

An activity to promote in-class discussion about experiment design.

Go big or go home!

This blog is part of an ongoing project to build greater interactivity and engagement within large introductory statistics courses at the tertiary level.
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