Supporting Statistics and Data Science Education with learnr

• DOI: 10.5070/t514156264
• Publication Date: 2022-12-19T16:41:46Z
• Authors: Sara Stoudt; Anthony D. Scotina; Karsten Luebke
• Keywords: Interface (matter); Cognitive Load; Statistics education

A modern statistics or data science course aims to equip students with both conceptual and computing skills. This is a challenging task as instructors do not want increase students’ cognitive load new tools technical details have balance limited teaching time help in achieving the learning outcomes of content tool use. Interactive tutorials, built R package learnr, can support student progressive reveal content, interactive code exercises, quizzes automatic feedback, an interface potential reduce burdens via deployment web application. We describe different use-cases for learnr tutorials including introductory upper-level courses based on our own experiences. also discuss common benefits lessons learned from implementing tutorials.