Towards an Electronic Learning Community / Scottish launch of LTSN Maths, Stats & OR Network

Following the advertisement for bursaries in the May issue of Maths, Stats & OR, and the first two workshops for statistics and OR activists held in October, Mike Fuller (Kent), Susan Starkings (South Bank) and Flavia Jolliffe (Greenwich) have agreed to help with activities for the Maths, Stats & OR Network. They will receive equal-valued bursaries from the network funds and their areas of principal responsibility are, respectively: Electronic learning community and the evaluation of electronic Resources; A world survey of the current state of research into statistical education and assessment issues; Comparative evaluation, teaching materials and baseline numeracy support…/… Scottish launch of LTSN Maths, Stats & OR Network: In Glasgow on the 27th of October the Scottish launch of the LTSN Maths, Stats & OR Network took place at the Department of Statistics in the University of Glasgow. After a brief introduction to the Network, Adrian Bowman gave an overview of changes in the use of technology in teaching Statistics over the last twenty years…