06 May 2016
Thanks to all for an excellent gathering: a total of seventeen people attended and engaged in lively discussion all day long. There is some talk of doing this again for eCOTs 2018, and perhaps even on a yearly basis: time for KyCOTS, perhaps?
A Few Special Resources
Slides for some of the presentations are available on this site: you can find links to them in the abstracts.
We will also post here miscellaneous resources mentioned by conference participants that may not be linked to in slide presentations or in other ways:
Pictures from eCOTS 2016 Kentucky
06 May 2016
Registration Deadline
The Regional Conference is less than two weeks away. As of this writing we have eleven confirmed participants, and I expect two more to confirm very soon. If you plan to attend please complete your registration by Thursday May 12 so I can finalize plans with our caterer.
As a reminder, the registration procedure is as follows. Go to the eCOTS site to register for eCOTS itself. As part of the process you will be asked to check which regional mini-conference you wish to attend, so don’t forget to check the Georgetown College box!
Then (and this is important!) email me to let me (see the Contact link in the sidebar) know of your intent to come. Registration at eCOTS plus an email of intent to me complete your registration for the Georgetown Regional Conference. Thanks to support from eCOTS registration is free, and breakfast and lunch will be provided at no charge to you.
Speakers
In additon to our keynote address from Bill Rayens of the University of Kentucky, we have an exciting set of four contributed talks by participants. Consult the Schedule on the sidebar for further details, including abstracts of all talks.
04 Mar 2016
ECOTS Registration is Live!
Registration for eECOTS 2016 went live earlier today. Go to the eCOTS site to register. As part of the process you will be asked to check which regional mini-conference you wish to attend, so don’t forget to check the Georgetown College box!
Then email me to let me (see the Contact link in the sidebar) know of your intent to come. Registration at eCOTS plus an email of intent to me complete your registration for the Georgetown Regional Conference. Thanks to support from eCOTS registration is free, and breakfast and lunch will be provided at no charge to you.
Also don’t forget to sign up for a free account on GitHub and then visit the repository for this site. Click the Watch button on the repository in order to receive email notifications of all discussions about scheduling, contributed talks, car-pooling and other conference details.
Details on the Keynote Address
Our keynote speaker is William S. Rayens of the Department of Statistics at the University of Kentucky. Bill has kindly provided some details of his talk:
Student-Centered Learning: Room Design Matters
William S. Rayens, Ph.D; Associate Chair and Director of Educational Initiatives, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky
Abstract
There are fundamental reasons to inherently value a student-centered, activity-based classroom in which students are active participants in their own learning. This can be especially important in a statistical reasoning course where students need to appreciate the role of the mathematics that underwrite the familiar formulae, but are students not well served by having a purely mathematical encounter. At the University of Kentucky we have become profoundly aware of the challenges that the physical classroom space poses for student-centered learning and in this talk we will describe a space we have constructed that we believe is a true game-changer. This pilot room was designed by the speaker and was used as a model for twelve TEAL (Technology Enabled Active Learning) classrooms in the new $112 million Academic Sciences Building, set to open in the fall of 2016. We will describe these spaces and discuss the critical role of technology in the design and how we are using that technology to facilitate a student-centered pedagogy.
I’m sure we all look forward to Bill’s address!
Call for Abstracts
But we want to hear from you, too! If in addition to attending you would like to present at our conference, please send me a title and abstract. For now, let’s plan on limiting contributed talks to twenty minutes each.
23 Jan 2016
The Conference
We are happy to announce the eECOTS 2016 Regional Conference at Georgetown (eCOTS16-RCG). This is a one-day gathering to enhance eCOTS 2016, the biennial electronic meeting of USCOTS, the United States Conference on the Teaching of Statistics.
eCOTS16-RCG is set for May 20, 2016 on the campus of Georgetown College in Central Kentucky. The conference receives sponsorship from eCOTS 2016. Participants should register for eCOTS prior to registering for eCOTS16-RCG.
Toggle the sidebar for more information, including: registration instructions, conference schedule, etc. Note especially the Comments and Discussion link. This takes you to the Issues page for the GitHub repository for this website. If you sign up for a GitHub account (free!) then you can post questions and initiate discussion threads. This will be useful in a variety of ways, from ride-sharing arrangements to preliminary discussions of contributed presentations. Click the “Watch” button on the repository itself in order to receive email notifications of all discussions.
