[R-sig-teaching] Teaching with R website

[Mark Daniel Ward]

Dear John,
    There are a handful of us who are thinking about such resources.  
There are many possibilities.  Yes, yes, I believe that such resources 
would be very useful to people who are starting to teach classes in R.  
Do you have specific suggestions?  I'm sending you a separate PM about this.
Mark




jverzani wrote:
> I was at the USCOTS conference in Ohio and found myself attending a
> demonstration on the statcrunch software, which I hadn't seen until then. As far
> as it goes the software is fine, but what was very interesting to me was the
> statcrunch.com website. As described there, this is set up to allow easy sharing
> of data sets, code and reports along with surveys etc. There were an enormous
> number of data sets (13000, reports etc. that were posted by instructors and
> students). The site is so successful a publisher now runs it.
>
> I currently put such files on my personal web site for my students to download.
> I have also enjoyed using materials from many other websites, such as those
> discussed in a recent thread. However, I think it might be extremely beneficial
> from a student perspective to have an one spot where they can find the work of
> many people oriented around teaching and learning R. Some site with good search
> abilities, some well chosen organization and a relatively modern look.
>
> I know there are a bunch of interesting web sites for R beyond the main one:
> CRANtastic, the R-Wiki, the graph gallery, ... but none seem oriented towards
> the exchange of data and techniques that are used to teach with R.
>
> Does anyone else think such a resource might be useful to the point where it was
> actually used? Are there other ideas where a common place for such information
> is value added?
>
> If this seems like a good idea, does anyone know if there is some off-the-shelf
> content management system that is well suited towards such?
>
> --John
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