We worked with seven instances of a prototype ILO
statistics course at six public university campuses (including
two separate courses in separate departments on one
campus). The individual campuses include, from the State
University of New York (SUNY): the University at Albany
and SUNY Institute of Technology; from the University of
Maryland: the University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
and Towson University; and from the City University of
New York (CUNY): Baruch College and City College.
We examine the learning effectiveness of a particular
interactive statistics course developed at Carnegie Mellon
University (CMU), considered a prototype for ILO courses.
Although the CMU course can be delivered in a fully online
environment, in this study most of the instruction was delivered
through interactive online materials, but the online
instruction was supplemented by a one-hour-per-week faceto-face
session in which students could ask questions or
obtain targeted assistance.