ABSTRACT
Demand for data science education is surging and traditional courses offered by statistics departments are not meeting the needs of those seeking training. This has led to a number of opinion pieces advocating for an update to the Statistics curriculum. The unifying recommendation is that computing should play a more prominent role. We strongly agree with this recommendation, but advocate the main priority is to bring applications to the forefront as proposed by Nolan and Speed (1999). We also argue that the individuals tasked with developing data science courses should not only have statistical training, but also have experience analyzing data with the main objective of solving real-world problems. Here, we share a set of general principles and offer a detailed guide derived from our successful experience developing and teaching a graduate-level, introductory data science course centered entirely on case studies. We argue for the importance of statistical thinking, as defined by Wild and Pfannkuch (1999) and describe how our approach teaches students three key skills needed to succeed in data science, which we refer to as creating, connecting, and computing. This guide can also be used for statisticians wanting to gain more practical knowledge about data science before embarking on teaching an introductory course.
ABSTRACT
Se realizó un estudio documental de los principios de la enseñanza con el propósito de reflexionar sobre su aplicación en la educación de posgrado en Enfermería y la importancia de éstos para la dirección científica del proceso docente. Se reconoció el carácter general, fundamental, esencial y obligatorio de los mismos, características que condicionan su carácter sistemático. Se asumió la validez del sistema de principios didácticos establecidos en la educación superior cubana, así como la teoría del conocimiento marxista-leninista y el ideario pedagógico cubano lo cual permitió fundamentar las ideas expresadas. Se concluyó que los principios de la enseñanza surgen como una generalización de la práctica pedagógica y reflejan las leyes objetivas que se manifiestan en este proceso, al mismo tiempo que forman una unidad que los hace válidos para toda actividad del profesor en la enseñanza(AU)
A documentary study of the teaching principles was conducted to reflect on their application to the nursing graduate education and their importance for the scientific management of the teaching process. This study recognized the general, fundamental, essential and compulsory character of these principles, which conditions their systematization. The validity of the system of didactic principles set in the Cuban higher education as well as of the theory of Marxist-Leninist knowledge and of the Cuban pedagogic set of ideas was accepted, which allowed substantiating the expressed ideas. It was concluded that the teaching principles emerge as a generalization of the pedagogic practice, they reflect the objective laws of this process and at the same time, they function as a unit, which makes them valid for all the professor's activities in education(AU)
