Distance Learning: New Frontiers for solving old problems

After a discussion on the use of technology for teaching purposes, the authors present an experiment carried out in Italy and based on the use of e-learning to face the problem of guiding large classes of students for lab activities in basic courses of Statistics. Even though this solution has been adopted to solve a local problem, it seems to have a wide range of potential applications. After a discussion on the use of technology for teaching purposes, the authors present an experiment carried out in Italy and based on the use of e-learning to face the problem of guiding large classes of students for lab activities in basic courses of Statistics. Even though this solution has been adopted …