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Distance Education of Statistics Teachers

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Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics-Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education

Part of the book series: New ICMI Study Series ((NISS,volume 14))

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The affordances offered by modern Internet technologies provide new opportunities for the pre-service and in-service education of teachers, making it possible to overcome the restrictions of shrinking resources and geographical locations and to offer, in a cost-effective and non-disruptive way, high quality learning experiences to geographically dispersed teachers. The focus of this chapter is the question of how information and communication tools made available online could be exploited effectively to help improve the quality and efficiency of teacher training in statistics education.

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  1. Department of Education Sciences, European University Cyprus, 6 Diogenous St., 1516, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris

  2. Colegio La Salle-Buen Consejo, Teresa de Calcuta, 70, 11510, Puerto Real Cadiz, Spain

    Ana Serradó

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  1. Fac. Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Granada, Granada, 18071, Spain

    Carmen Batanero

  2. Dept. Counseling,, Educational Psychology &, Michigan State University, Erickson Hall 240, East Lansing, 48824, Michigan, USA

    Gail Burrill

  3. SiMERR National Centre, University of New England, Armidale, 2350, New South Wales, Australia

    Chris Reading

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Meletiou-Mavrotheris, M., Serradó, A. (2011). Distance Education of Statistics Teachers. In: Batanero, C., Burrill, G., Reading, C. (eds) Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics-Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education. New ICMI Study Series, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1131-0_36

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