eCOTS 2026 - Birds of a Feather

Program in development and may be updated. Please check back for the latest information.

Tuesday June 16th, 11:00 am – 11:45 am ET

BoF-T-01: Supporting Statistics and Data Science Teacher Education

Travis Weiland (University of North Carolina Charlotte)

BoF-T-02: Why Students Should Care About Statistics in an AI World?

Mohammed Quazi (West Virginia University)

BoF-T-03: Oral exams: Best practices and pitfalls

Harrison Li (Harvey Mudd College)

BoF-T-04: Graduate Student Preparation for Teaching

Shandy Hauk and Domenic Gulli (San Francisco State University)

BoF-T-05: Has AI Changed What Counts as Essential in Statistics Education? Rethinking Coding, Concepts, and Core Competencies

Ilana Trumble (University of Colorado Boulder)

BoF-T-06: AI in the Statistics Classroom: Designing Modules to Prepare Students for the Workplace

Tatiana Krikella (York University)

BoF-T-07: Gathering Feedback on the CAUSE Research Website

Laura Le (University of Minnesota) and Jennifer L. Green (Michigan State University)

BoF-T-08: Strengthening Quantitative Skills in the Next Generation of Life Scientists

Bethany White and Gracia Dong (University of Toronto)

BoF-T-09: Social Issues through Statistics

Reem Kharfan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Nina Bailey (Montclair State University)

BoF-T-10: ASA Statistics and Data Science Education Section Mentoring Program

Suhwon Lee (University of Missouri) and Nicky Wakim (Oregon Health & Science University)

BoF-T-11: AI Has Won. What Now?

Daniel Kaplan (Macalester College)

Wednesday June 17th, 11:00 am – 11:45 am ET

BoF-W-01: Flipped Classrooms: Successes and Stumbles

Anita Bhandari Sharma (University of South Carolina Lancaster)

BoF-W-02: Statistics Education at Tribal Institutions

AnnMaria De Mars (Sitting Bull College)

BoF-W-03: Humanizing Asynchronous Introductory Statistics Courses: Community, Belonging, and Engagement at Scale

Christine Ouma (University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash College)

BoF-W-04: Business Statistics/Data Analytics and AI

Jessica Kohlschmidt and Ismael Talke (The Ohio State University)

BoF-W-05: No Time Like the Present (Except When There is Change): Teaching Longitudinal Methods

Christine Merrilees (State University of New York at Geneseo), Chystyna Kouros, and Frank He (Southern Methodist University)

BoF-W-06: Sustainable Statistical Practices

Nicholas Bussberg (Elon University) and Salma Musaad (Baylor College of Medicine)

BoF-W-07: Workplaces Are Changing - Are Our Students Prepared?

Matthew Forshaw (The Alan Turing Institute) and Donna LaLonde (American Statistical Association)

BoF-W-08: Fair and Fun Evaluation in Asynchronous Virtual Courses with Oral Exams

Suhwon Lee (University of Missouri)

BoF-W-09: Setting Clear Expectations with AI Usage Scales

Elizabeth McGuffey (Rice University)

BoF-W-10: Undergrads at eCOTS

Reem Kharfan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Legend

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Posters & Beyond
Exhibitors
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Note: All times are listed in Eastern Time.