The Usage of web medium for effective statistics education

Abstract

The web media has become one of the most effective communication media in the world at the moment. Learning/teaching environment can be effectively carried out using the web media, as there are so many medias can be integrated into the web. As statistics is a subject, which contains mathematics, and concepts, which are little bit difficult to visualize, the web can be used effectively for statistics education. The idea of this thesis is to conduct a research activity about statistics education, difficulties in present statistics educational methods, web based education, incorporating web for statistics education and finally to develop a prototype web-based learning/teaching system. Based on researches and the new technological aspects, this thesis discusses the important facts like appropriate web interface designs for effective learning environment, presentation of information that can be easily visualized, multimedia usage in learning environment and technical aspects of web-based application development, etc. Finally by taking above factors into consideration a prototype of web-based system which can assist in statistics teaching /learning environment is developed.