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I found this and thought this would be a nice way to introduce where statistics is used at the beginning of a Introduction to Statistics course in an online class.

The statistical software language R is open-source with free download for Windows PCs. It's a bit cumbersome to learn with the help manuals running to 4,000 pages of "stream of consciousness" thinking. However, it's very powerful, and will readily do things that (say) Excel cannot do. Scripts can be saved to Word documents for later re-use.

This article discusses some statistics of social networking use and how users can get scammed or information stolen through clicking on headers or sharing too much personal data.

Very interesting statistics in this piece. I wonder how comparable these figures would be to Canadian colleges and universities.

As cost-effective alternatives to traditional college classes, online learning programs continue to gain steam in higher ed. According to statistics gathered for an Online Learning Consortium infographic, 5.8 million students are now enrolled in online courses, and the majority put tremendous stock in the quality of their education: 90 percent of students say their online learning experiences are the same or better than in-classroom options.

Here are some statistics from the Dept. of Ed. article, "Use of Technology in Teaching and Learning".

This web is useful to look for online teaching jobs too.

WeBWorK is an open-source online homework system for math and sciences courses. WeBWorK is supported by the MAA and the NSF and comes with a National Problem Library (NPL) of over 20,000 homework problems. Problems in the NPL target most lower division undergraduate math courses and some advanced courses. Supported courses include college algebra, discrete mathematics, probability and statistics, single and multivariable calculus, differential equations, linear algebra and complex analysis.

Knowing how many students are in the system is interesting to understand the size of the transformation due to Covid-19

65% of adults now use social networking sites - a nearly tenfold jump in the past decade Nearly two-thirds of American adults (65%) use social networking sites, up from 7% when Pew Research Center began systematically tracking social media usage in 2005.

These statistics are another reason why the use of social media and other technology tools should be incorporated somehow within education.

Great place to find statistical information on diseases

This is an interesting article that discusses the importance of creating "community" with social media and how it's important to incorporate into the classroom. The startling statistic that the authors cite is that 96% of students are using at least 1 form of social media.