Hypermedia and Www for the Teaching of Statistics

INTRODUCTION The application of new technologies to the teaching of statistics is still in an experimental phase and at the moment we have limited significant experience. On the other hand, numerous teachers are trying to introduce new technologies to the teaching of basic statistics. The considerations made in this paper emerge from direct experience at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Urbino. Our efforts in this area derive from the attempt to introduce statistical software to the teaching of introductory statistics. The shortcomings of this attempt soon emerged: • students need to quickly learn how to use statistical software, but not all students succeeded in doing so; • the analysis structure and outputs of the software were often too complex compared with the real needs of the course; • students with their own PC could not practice at home because of copyright issues; • a number of PC features which should have had an educational impact were not exploited: graphics and picture displays, learning tests, interactive drills, educational software, motion video....