Teaching Operational Reseach/Management Science in Higher Education: Distance Learning Study Units for New or Crrent Teachers

For several years the statistics team of the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA) Mathematics Statistics and Operational Research Network (MSOR Network) has successfully run the course Certificate in Teaching Statistics in Higher Education fully accredited as a Certificate qualification by the Royal Statistical Society [1]. A distinctive feature of the distance learning material that constitutes the core of this course is its flexibility. It may be used as a (possibly optional) unit in a university PgCert or Diploma in Teaching and Learning. Alternatively the individual units may be used as distance learning components in both initial training (induction) courses and continuing professional development programmes.