There are a number of available textbooks to support student learning in first-year seminars, but these resources can come at a considerable cost. To help reduce those costs, faculty and staff at SHSU have collaborated on an open educational resource (OER) to support students enrolled in UNIV 1101: Learning Frameworks. Open educational resources are publicly available to copy, use, and adapt by others. Most importantly, they are free to students.

Foundations for College Success was written to provide information and resources about learning strategies, study skills, and how to locate and engage with academic support to help you succeed as you transition to college. This resource also provides an opportunity for you to learn about course topics directly from experts at Sam Houston State University. Topics covered in this resource include the following:

Health & Wellness
Financial Literacy
Information Literacy
Memory
Critical Thinking
Reading Strategies
Math Strategies
Advising
Career Exploration

We are constantly bombarded by information, and finding a way to filter that information in an objective way is crucial to surviving this onslaught with your sanity intact. This is what statistics, and logic we use in it, enables us to do. Through the lens of statistics, we learn to find the signal hidden in the noise when it is there and to know when an apparent trend or pattern is really just randomness. The study of statistics involves math and relies upon calculations of numbers. But it also relies heavily on how the numbers are chosen and how the statistics are interpreted.

This work was created as part of the University of Missouri’s Affordable and Open Access Educational Resources Initiative (https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/aa/oer). The contents of this work have been adapted from the following Open Access Resources: Online Statistics Education: A Multimedia Course of Study (http://onlinestatbook.com/). Project Leader: David M. Lane, Rice University. Changes to the original works were made by Dr. Garett C. Foster in the Department of Psychological Sciences to tailor the text to fit the needs of the introductory statistics course for psychology majors at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. Materials from the original sources have been combined, reorganized, and added to by the current author, and any conceptual, mathematical, or typographical errors are the responsibility of the current author.

Introduction to Statistics is a resource for learning and teaching introductory statistics. This work is in the public domain. Therefore, it can be copied and reproduced without limitation. However, we would appreciate a citation where possible. Please cite as: Online Statistics Education: A Multimedia Course of Study (http://onlinestatbook.com/). Project Leader: David M. Lane, Rice University. Instructor's manual, PowerPoint Slides, and additional questions are available.

Online Statistics: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study is an introductory-level statistics book. The material is presented both as a standard textbook and as a multimedia presentation. The book features interactive demonstrations and simulations, case studies, and an analysis lab.