Towards an Electronic Learning Community for Statistics and OR

Following the advertisement for bursaries in the May issue of Maths Stats & OR and the first two workshops for statistics and OR activists held in October Mike Fuller (Kent) Susan Starkings (South Bank) and Flavia Jolliffe (Greenwich) have agreed to help with activities for the Maths Stats & OR Network. They will receive equal-valued bursaries from the network funds and their areas of principal responsibility are respectively:

• Electronic learning community and the evaluation of electronic resources;
• A world survey of the current state of research into statistical education and assessment issues;
• Comparative evaluation teaching materials and baseline numeracy support.

In practice all three will help each other on all the projects and early results will be published as soon as possible in the MSOR newsletter. More formal reports will be submitted to refereed journals in the usual way.