Abstract
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic forced Portuguese higher education institutions to go home and teach online. Therefore, we had an online experience teaching the Statistics course to the Social Service degree. Viewing this school year experience, we decided to make some changes in the Statistical courses of Informatics, Mechanical and Civil Engineering degrees. Our main concern is still the uncertainty of what is yet to come in the next first semester: face-to face or emergency remote education. In this work we present our ideas in order to develop our students’ skills – collaboration, communication, citizenship/culture, creativity, and critical thinking – through their probability and statistics course and as part of their degree’s curricula.
Highlights
Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Portuguese higher education institutions faced the challenge to change from face-to-face delivery of courses to digitally teaching for distance learning in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus
We had an online experience teaching the statistics course to the Social Service degree. Viewing this school year experience – emergency remote education, we decided to make some changes to the statistical courses of Informatics, Mechanical and Civil Engineering degrees
The “creation or deeper modification of teaching and learning processes to fulfill the needs” (Kedraka & Kaltsidis, 2020) of probability and statistics courses taught to those engineering degrees need to be made
Summary
Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Portuguese higher education institutions faced the challenge to change from face-to-face delivery of courses to digitally teaching for distance learning in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Viewing this school year experience – emergency remote education, we decided to make some changes to the statistical courses of Informatics, Mechanical and Civil Engineering degrees At this time we still don’t know how the first semester of the school year 2020/2021 will take place: all face-to-face classes (face-to-face); online theoretical classes and face-to-face theoretical-practical or laboratory classes (blended learning); if the COVID-19 pandemic spreads again, switch to online classes – emergency remote education. In this work we present our ideas, planning, strategies and assessment proposal for the first semester of 2020/2021 that we think we can ensure in either learning type with minor adjustments These are made in order to develop our students’ skills – collaboration, communication, citizenship/culture, creativity, and critical thinking – through their probability and statistics course and as part of their degree’s curricula. These terms do not quite capture what is being practiced during the interruption of education, which can better be described as emergency remote education.”
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
