An Educator’s Guide to the Open Case Studies
An Educator’s Guide to the Open Case Studies
A Guide for using Example data analyses with real-world data inside and outside the classroom
About the Book
This guide describes how case studies from the Open Case Studies project (www.opencasestudies.org) can be used for instruction about topics in data science, statistics, public health, and more. Each case study is open source and free. They provide a complete tour through a data analysis from start to finish. The case studies are appropriate for high school through graduate education. We also describe how instructors can modify existing case studies or contribute their own case studies to our collection.
Guide users will learn about :
- The Open Case Studies Philosophy
- The infrastructure of our project and entry points to using case studies
- Examples of how educators have been using our case studies
- Ways to modify and adapt existing case studies
- How to create new case studies
- How to contribute case studies to our collection
Currently our case studies are written in R using R Markdown. Familiarity with R is helpful but not required.
About the Authors
Table of Contents
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About this guide
- Formats
- Summary
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Introduction
- Learning Objectives
- Motivation
- Target Audience
- Curriculum
- Open Case Studies Philosophy
- Open Case Studies Anatomy
- Starter Kit
- Feedback
- Contact Us
- References
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Open Case Study Infrastructure
- Learning Objectives
- OCS Website
- Feedback
- OCS Case Study Search Tool
- Open Case Studies GitHub Organization
- OCSdata
- Session info
- References
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Use of Open Case Studies
- Learning Objectives
- Open Case Studies in the Classroom
- Case Study Recommendations
- Example Use Cases
- Examples of assignments
- Session info
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Modifying open case studies
- Learning Objectives
- Modular use
- Modify a case study
- Create a case study
- Session info
- References
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New Case Studies - Building and Contributing
- Learning Objectives
- Case Study Libraries
- Submission Process
- Offical Case Study Guidelines
- Session info
- References
- About the Authors
- References
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