RE: Student interaction over Web or internet

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Robert Lundquist (Robert.Lundquist@ies.luth.se)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 08:40:10 +0100 

From: Robert Lundquist <Robert.Lundquist@ies.luth.se>
Subject: RE: Student interaction over Web or internet
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 08:40:10 +0100

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In my attempts to stimulate students' discussion in statistics courses, I
have never really been successful. Part of the explanation probably lies in
a general "techo-illiteracy", but mostly it seems to be founded in poor
mathematical skills. The students usually can't express their problems in
either mathematical notation or in words - they can say that they
don'tunderstand, but not specifically what it is that they don't understand.
The lesson to learn seems to be that "language" is a crucial issue: the ones
involved in the dicsussion must be able to communicate in terms of the
language that their actual problems are stated in. Evident enough, but I
must admit that so far I for one have not really understood this.

Robert Lundquist
Div of Quality Technology & Statistics
Lulea University of Technology
Sweden

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