Teaching statistics online: A decade's review of the literature about what works

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Mills, Jamie D ^a   Raju, Dheeraj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Best Practices; Statistics Education; Statistics learning online

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960852431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10691898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2011.11889613     Document Type: Article

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