Wprowadzanie elementów systemu wspomagania nauczania statystyki przez Internet w Akademii Ekonomicznej w Katowicach

Abstract

In last few years in Department ot Statistics at the University of Economics in Katowice a process has started which is to result with introduction of special teaching system. The prepared system is to be very useful in teaching process of such courses as statistics, introduction to statistics (descriptive statistics) and mathematical statistics. Tutorials on these courses are lead in computer laboratories. Students are much more interested in the subject when they can learn with the use of computers than it used to be during classes lead in traditional way. Their participation in classes has more active character and for some time an improvement of their exam results has been observed. In the process of improvement of the teaching system many activities have been undertaken which main aims are the unification of exam papers, preparation of materials used during tutorials and multimedia presentations. In the paper the examples of materials used in teaching process are presented. These are Microsoft Excel files with sets of statistical problems, with solved problems and files that allow to solve problems interactively. The prepared system of multimedia presentations with solutions of some problems in field of descriptive statistics and mathematical statistics and the didactic presentations of some statistical issues are also presented.