Online Interactive Tutorials for Creating Graphs With Excel 2007 or 2010

Utilizing Learning Styles for Interactive Tutorials

Web-based learning environments, such as eLearning and distance learning systems, have become more common and popular in commercial and educational settings. They constitute a growing business today, and the concept of learning ‘anywhere, anytime’ has received much attention. These systems are still in their infancy, however, and are faced with various challenges to become fully effective tools...

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Teaching statistics with Excel 2007 and other spreadsheets

This article considers which activities in teaching statistics may be suitable candidates for the application of spreadsheets, and whether spreadsheets in general and Excel 2007 in particular are suitable for these tasks. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

It's easy to produce chartjunk using Microsoft®Excel 2007 but hard to make good graphs

The purpose of default settings in a graphic tool is tomake it easy to produce good graphics that accord with the principles of statistical graphics, e.g., [Tufte, E.R., 1990. Envisioning Information. Graphics Press, Cheshire, Conn, Tufte, E.R., 1997. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, 2nd Edition. Graphics Press, Cheshire, Conn, Cleveland, W.S., 1993. Visualizi...

Design and Implementation of Interactive Tutorials for Data Structures

The Tutorial Generation Toolkit (TGT) is a set of Java classes that supports authoring of interactive tutorial applications. This paper describes extensions to the capabilities of the TGT and several new tutorials aimed at the Data Structures course which were built using the