Teaching Introductory Statistics to Blind Students

Stephen M. Marson; Charles F. Harrington; Adam Walls

Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers Vol. 35, No. 1 (2013) pp. 21–25

The challenges of learning statistics, particularly distributions and their characteristics, can be potentially monumental for vision impaired and blind students. The authors provide some practical advice for teaching these students.

Podcasting in education: Are students as ready and eager as we think they are?

Stephen M. Walls; John V. Kucsera; Joshua D. Walker; Taylor W. Acee; Nate K. McVaugh; Daniel H. Robinson

Computers & Education Vol. 54, No. 2 (February 2010) pp. 371–378

Instructors in higher education are disseminating instructional content via podcasting, as many rally behind the technology’s potential benefits. Others have expressed concern about the risks of deleterious effects that might accompany the adoption...

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