Scaling the presentation-skills component of the Good Statistical Practice course

Determine how to scale up the presentation skills component of the University of Zurich Master Program in Biostatistics course "Good Statistical Practice" to accommodate larger student numbers.

Background

The course "Good Statistical Practice" integrates integrity, communication, computing, and reproducibility, with dedicated blocks on presentation and writing skills. The authors note that while the course is efficient in staff time, increases in student numbers would particularly strain the presentation and writing components.

They report that adaptations for the writing skills component, including responsible use of generative LLMs, are already under development. However, they explicitly state uncertainty about how to scale the presentation skills component, highlighting an unresolved question about effective strategies for scaling this part of the course.

References

While adaptations to the writing skills part, which include the responsible exploitation of generative LLM implementations, are already in development, it is unclear how a scale-up for the presentation skills part could be possible.

— More than Formulas -- Integrity, Communication, Computing and Reproducibility in Statistics Education  (2407.08835 - Furrer et al., 2024) in Section 6, Discussion