Application of E-Learning in Teaching Elementary Statistics

Abstract

In this study, the authors evaluated how lecture-based education could best be supplemented with online learning strategies. Every year, over 4000 new students in Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) are taking Elementary Statistics subject as the requirement for graduation. The students did not perform very well in this course because their background in mathematics is very weak. The number of student per class is about 100. Furthermore, the university is lack of the academic staff. With the use of recent technology, learning materials can be kept in the server where it can stimulate the students to keep revising the lesson repeatedly. Now UUM is exploring this learning concept.