There is a lot of information including free software such as JAVA applets that can be incorporated into an introductory course in Statistics.
Chance & Rossman (2001), Sequencing Topics in Introductory Statistics, The American Statistician, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 140-144. This article contains a stimulating discussion on possible ordering of topics in introductory statistics courses.
Anderson-Cook & Sundar (2001), An Active Learning In-Class Demonstration of Good Experimental Design, Journal of Statistics Education Volume 9, Number 1. This article contains JAVA applets which are useful in teaching the usefulness of randomization with the two-sample t-test.
Statistical Calculators. Free web-based statistical calculators: http://calculators.stat.ucla.edu/
Statistical Java. Many free applets for applied statistics: http://www.stat.vt.edu/~sundar/java/applets/
WebStat. Free web-based statistical package: wehttp://www.stat.sc.edu/webstat/
RWeb. R for the Web: http://www.math.montana.edu/Rweb/Resources.html
Journal of Statistical Education. Many articles of interest: http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/
Journal of Statistical Sofware contains some free software of interest: http://www.jstatsoft.org/
Some of these articles are relevant to our discussions about the future of introductory statistics courses. Some are interesting but maybe not too relevant to our situation. For links see http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/jse_index.html
Ballman, K. (1997), Greater Emphasis on Variation in an Introductory Statistics Course, Journal of Statistics Education v.5, n.2. Argues that teaching the concept of variability should be more emphasized than probability in intro stats courses.
Bishop, G. (1998) A Series of Tutorials for Teaching Statistical Concepts in an Introductory Course I. Sampling From an Aerial Photograph Journal of Statistics Education v.6, n.2. A nice example for a series of tutorials in an intro stats course.
Fillebrown, S. (1994), Using Projects in an Elementary Statistics Course for Non-Science Majors, Journal of Statistics Education v.2, n.2. Comments on project oriented courses.
Garrett, L. & John C. Nash, J.C. (2001), Issues in Teaching the Comparison of Variability to Non-Statistics Students. Journal of Statistics Education Volume 9, Number 2. Teaching non-stats students as in our proposed new version of Statistics 024a/b.
Keeler, C. and Steinhorst, K. (2001), A New Approach to Learning Probability in the First Statistics Course Journal of Statistics Education Volume 9, Number 3. Argues that we should de-emphasize combinatorics in elementary probability and de-emphasize the normal distribution and tables. Concepts like randomness and independence emphasized.
Konold, C. (1995), Issues in Assessing Conceptual Understanding in Probability and Statistics, Journal of Statistics Education v.3, n.1. Interesting discussion of some common student mis-conceptions.
Malone, C.J. & Bilder, C.R. (2001), Statistics Course Web Sites: Beyond syllabus.html, Journal of Statistics Education Volume 9, Number 2. Ideas for course web pages -- many of these capabilities are available through WebCT at UWO.
Mulekar, M. (2000), Internet Resources for AP Statistics Teachers, Journal of Statistics Education v.8, n.2. Internet resources for high school teachers teaching stats.
Rinaman, W.C. (1998), Revising a Basic Statistics Course, Journal of Statistics Education v.6, n.2. Discusses the pitfalls encountered when computer labs were used in a statistics service course.
Rumsey, D.J. (1998), A Cooperative Teaching Approach to Introductory Statistics, Journal of Statistics Education v.6, n.1. May not be relevant to our department. Discusses cooperative learning and teaching -- the basic idea is how to use small discussion groups to foster learning and teaching.
Smith G. (1998), Learning Statistics By Doing Statistics, Journal of Statistics Education v.6, n.3. Use of projects involving written and oral reports.
Mustafa R. Yilmaz (1996), The Challenge of Teaching Statistics to Non-Specialists, Journal of Statistics Education v.4, n.1 (1996). Suggested syllabus and use of software in teaching.
Zetterqvist, L. (1997), Statistics for Chemistry Students: How to Make a Statistics Course Useful by Focusing on Applications Journal of Statistics Education v.5, n.1. Some ideas about projects in small vs large courses.