We invite you to participate in OZCOTS 2023, the 11th Australian Conference on Teaching Statistics. OZCOTS 2023 will run as a hybrid Conference on Thursday 14th and Friday 15th December, 2023 and will consider many challenges of teaching Statistics for future statisticians, statistical users and consumers under the theme of “Statistics as a Big Tent: Statistics and Data Science Education”.  OZCOTS 2023 is building on the success of the timing and format of earlier OZCOTS as a conjoint event with the Australian Statistical Conference (ASC), to be held as a hybrid Conference in Wollongong University, Australia and online, with an overlap on Thursday 14th December 2023.

Join us to advance statistics and data science education, and to learn from the work and thoughts of esteemed colleagues. Every day the teaching and learning of statistics is becoming more important than ever to industry, government, business and for everyone in the society from cradle to nursing home. The roles of statistical understanding and statistical thinking are vital in all disciplines, increasingly driven by big data, evidence-based agendas, and technological advances which generate data as well as enabling more complex problem-solving, data visualisation and analysis, especially when data science usually taught separate from statistics by computer educators. We need to be united to work collaboratively together and with computer educators to give the best opportunities for our students to be employed after graduation.

The OZCOTS program plans to include keynote and contributed papers, and forum discussion on issues across the statistical and data science education spectrum of interest to the whole statistical profession. The program aims to address challenges of the intersection of data science and statistics across different disciplines and learning strategies. It will include topics ranging across the curricula and technology for teaching introductory and undergraduate statistics; resources and online learning; statistics learning for postgraduates, researchers and workers; and research in the teaching of statistics.

The specific themes of OZCOTS 2023 are

• Evidence-based teaching and learning practices in statistics and data science tertiary education;

• Curriculum design and delivery that addresses the needs of all learners;

• Challenges of wider participation: addressing the needs of non-traditional students at university;

• Opportunities and challenges of statistics and data science teaching and learning;

• Innovation in teaching and assessment: novel approaches and practices;

• Online learning and teaching and student engagement in online world;

• Including employability into statistics and data science curriculum;

• Other (if your paper does not fit in any theme above, you can submit your proposal here).