🚨 Exciting news! 🚨
We've just launched the @RoSE_Network_ blog!
If you're interested in sparking conversations and sharing insights about statistics education, then have a read (and think about contributing 👀)
Read our first post which introduces the blog: https://www.rose-network.org/blog/welcome-to-the-rose-blog
🎉 The {messy} package is now available on CRAN! 🎉
Read the introductory blog post here: https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introducing-messy-r-package/
Save the date for UKCOTS 2025!
📅 24th-25th June 2025
📌 University of Glasgow, UK
❔ A conference for anyone with an interest in the teaching of statistics in higher education in whatever department or discipline
Link: https://www.ukcots.org/
If you're teaching R, or statistics, and you want your students to get more practice of data wrangling with "messy" data, you can use the {messy} package to turn the clean data you currently use for examples into more realistic looking data!
GitHub: https://github.com/nrennie/messy
And just to show off (and get feedback), the latest thing I wrote is a game to let students play with causality and experiments... https://martinmodrak.github.io/causal-game/ (unlike my students, you shouldn't send the results for the homework assignment to me, though :D )
Spotlighting an event worth checking out: a workshop on teaching study design and analysis in the life sciences!
❓ 1-day in-person workshop to foster communication among disciplines and improve teaching in study design and analysis, with an eye to support science reform by improving research transparency and reproducibility
📅 9th January 2025
📍 University of Edinburgh, UK
💰 Cost: Free
Registration link: https://forms.office.com/e/2vQ9UFLQXt
More information and schedule: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GBkEKjhDdeqqmpZZOLGxcimGlKmNKRr7gl1Nd0Ym8HU/edit?usp=sharing
📢 Do you teach programming? Then the (hybrid) Winter School on Teaching Programming across Disciplines might be of interest!
❓ What is it: one-day workshop designed for anyone who teaches programming (in any language) to an audience that includes non-computer scientists
📍 Where: University of Edinburgh, Usher Building (BioQuarter) and online
📅 When: Wednesday 8th January, 9am-5pm GMT
📋 More info: https://pairprogramming.ed.ac.uk/winter-school-25/
👍 Registration: https://forms.office.com/e/d3WABzje3n
I had a great time teaching a "Writing Better R Code" workshop for some of our Faculty of Health and Medicine postgraduates today!
➡️ AM: Workflows, linting, code structure, writing a reprex, and managing dependencies
🤝 PM: Introduction to collaborating on R code using Git and GitHub
It is recommendation letter writing season. Resharing my blog post:
Tips on Recommendation Letters for Students and Instructors
https://www.datapedagogy.com/posts/2023-07-19-tips-rec-letters/tips-rec-letters
🚨New Teaching Programming Journal Club!🚨
Interested in topics related to teaching coding to students without a strong programming background?
Join the first session:
📅 16 October 2024
⏰ 08:00 PT/11:00 EST/ 16:00 BST
📌 Zoom
More information: https://www.rose-network.org/events/teaching-programming-journal-club
Open Case Studies https://www.opencasestudies.org/
"demonstrates illustrative data analyses that can be used in the classroom to teach students how to effectively derive knowledge from data"
Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26939169.2024.2394541
#MathEd #StatsEd #EdDev #Teaching #DataScience
It's the last day of RSS Conference today! I'll be speaking in the "Schools, outreach and the digital world: how can we deliver statistical and data literacy for all?" session at 3.20pm in Oxford Hall!
Come along to hear from this year's William Guy lecturers alongside other speakers about some of the outreach work we've done with schools!
If you're at RSS Conference today, come along to the Lancaster room for 11.30 session to hear me chatting about some of the wonderful things you can use webR for when teaching R! (Plus other talks about teaching R in an accessible way!)
📢The 2024-2025 William Guy Lectureship videos are now available! 📢
If you'd like a version of the talk aimed at 11-16 year olds delivered for your school (online or locally in person), please do get in touch!
Would you like to be part of the RoSE (@RoSE_Network_) committee? 🌹
We're currently recruiting for several committee roles!
Deadline: 1st September 2024
New blog post:
Learning about AI in the data science classroom
https://www.datapedagogy.com/posts/2024-06-26-ai-plans/ai-plans
📢New blog post 📢
A short blog post about how I've been using Quarto to create two versions of R tutorial worksheets: one with questions, one with answers!
Two tricks:
🪄 parameterised documents
🪄 conditional content
Blog post: https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/r-tutorial-worksheets-quarto/
