Overview of online teaching and internet resources for statistics education

Over the past few years there has been a big increase in the use of the Internet as a resource for helping teach most subjects, including statistics, especially at the post secondary level. This varies from the fairly simple use of the Web as a place to store and disseminate information and provide efficient means of communication, to complete web based courses on statistics. This paper will look at some of the issues in online learning, and particularly at a range of websites that utilise the different aspects of the Internet for the improvement of the teaching of statistics. These include National Statistical Agencies, statistics courses, statistics calculators, probability, history, assessment, datasets useful in the teaching and research in statistics, interactive applets which aim to help students with the development of statistical concepts and explanatory descriptions of statistics techniques. These developments mainly occur in the teaching of introductory statistics, a subject taken by many students at the post secondary level