SOCR Overview 2008

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SOCR News - SOCR Statistics 495A Presentation (November 17, 2008)

SOCR Overview

The overarching aim of the Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) are to design, validate and freely disseminate knowledge using modern information and communication technologies. We showcase our multi-disciplinary instructional materials, extensible computational libraries and interactive hands-on activities, which are available anonymously and in their entirety over the Internet to all users all the times (www.SOCR.ucla.edu).

Presentation Outline

• What is SOCR (http://socr.ucla.edu/)?
• History http://socr.ucla.edu/htmls/SOCR_Acknowledgements.html
  • Resource types: data + methods + demonstrations + tools
  • About SOCR: http://socr.ucla.edu/htmls/SOCR_About.html
  • SOCR Users and GeoMap: http://www.socr.ucla.edu/SOCR_UserGoogleMap.html
  • EBook: http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/EBook
  • SOCR HT Viewer: http://socr.ucla.edu/SOCR_HT_ResourceViewer.html
• SOCR News (http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/SOCR_Events_SMC2008)
• Philosophy
  • In teaching and educational research, one-size-rarely-fits-all. SOCR resources provide materials, tools and infrastructure for instructors to build course curricula tailored for their specific courses and student needs.
  • All SOCR materials are open (development and usage)
  • Multilingual resources
• Integrated data + methods + demonstrations + tools!
  • Data: http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/SOCR_Data
  • Methods: http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/EBook
  • Demonstration/Activities: http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/SOCR_EduMaterials
  • Tools: (e.g., Analyses: http://socr.ucla.edu/htmls/SOCR_Analyses.html)
• SOCR Usage in Middle/High School

Additional Materials

• Intensive 3-day SOCR Continuing Education Workshop, August 10-12, 2009 at UCLA
• SOCR Brochure
• SOCR Home page: http://www.socr.ucla.edu

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