Share Paper: Integrating Online CURE to Engage Students in Computational and Statistical Thinking

  1. Li Xu, University of Arizona, United States
Monday, April 11 1:45 PM-2:05 PM Tidepool 3

Abstract: In our Applied Computing curriculum, faculty identified Computational Thinking (CT) and Statistical Thinking (ST) as critical cognitive dispositions students need to adopt. However, historically students shy away from computation and statistics education. Moreover, the online course deliveries we use to offer courses can prove challenging to engage students into effective and productive learning. Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) provides an effective approach to engage students into more active learning (Kuh, 2008), and support students to accomplish learning outcomes and persistence (Freeman et al., 2014) in STEM majors. This paper presents a course design that integrates CURE into an online course ...