StatSpace is an open repository of modular resources for use in teaching introductory statistics. StatSpace brings together open, vetted and adaptable resources including animations, web visualizations, activities and questions. Many resources use active learning techniques and some also provide suggestions for use including teaching pitfalls and how students use and misuse resources. Resources can be used individually or in groups and can be used in lecture, in labs, as pre-learning tools or for student review.
StatSpace grew out of the Department’s goal of providing more structure in cross-campus introductory statistics education. It is the result of a cross-campus collaboration called the Flexible Learning in Statistics (FLIS) project. The FLIS team was composed of experienced statistics instructors with homes in five different departments in three different faculties. These instructors have student audiences ranging from second-year statistics majors to third-year political science majors to first-year medical students. The project not only received central UBC funding, but also direct funding from the deans of three faculties, Medicine, Science and Arts, and the Statistical Society of Canada.
StatSpace welcomes online comments and contributions of resources. Please do browse and consider contributing resources. Browsing does not require registration, although commenting and contributing do require registration. There is no registration fee.
For inquiries, please email statspace@stat.ubc.ca.
Contributing
Our vision is that StatSpace contains resources that are modular and largely self-contained, each with its own metadata including learning outcomes and prerequisites. We hope that you will work with us to ensure that the StatSpace resources and the material surrounding resources have a consistent format. This will make it easy to find material and to use resources.
To contribute material:
- Register, if you have not already done so.
- Request permission to contribute by emailing statspace@stat.ubc.ca.
- Read the information listed below. It will guide you in preparing your submission.
- When you have approval for contributing and have your material collected, sign in.
- After you submit your resource, the UBC StatSpace team will review it before posting it on StatSpace. Before posting, we may work with you if we feel some changes would make your materials accessible to our intended audience and consistent with StatSpace format.
This information may help you with your submission.
- Submission Overview: while directions are embedded in the submission pages, you may find this overview helpful.
- Guidelines for Contributors: this document contains some dos and don’ts to consider when contributing resources.
- MetaData template: you may find it useful to fill this in before submitting your resource, then cut and paste into StatSpace. This template does not include the detailed directions to be found on StatSpace.