enseignement_restit_short.Rmd

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title: "Suggestions from expert to beginner professors in statistics"
author: Lucia Clarotto
output: html_document
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## The idea behind this document

This document is a list of suggestions from expert to beginner professors in statistics, including how to create quiz and exams in R Markdown and shiny apps, how to make students use R on their notebooks without installing it and where to find good datasets (especially in ecology and life sciences).

## The use of `learnr` for quiz

The R package `learnr` allows to create a shiny app with quiz, questions with corrections included. A good tutorial is available on the website of [Finist'R 2020](https://stateofther.github.io/finistR2020/teach_learnr_gradethis.html) or on the [`learnr` webpage](https://rstudio.github.io/learnr/articles/learnr.html).

[Here](https://luciaclar8.shinyapps.io/enseignement_restit/#section-the-idea-behind-this-document) you can find another short example, created by myself.

## Datasets available online

Here is a list of sites that can be used to download datasets for student projects. 

* [Zenodo: datasets in ecology, environment, ...](https://zenodo.org/)
Mainly data papers in ecology.

* [ecologie.data.gouv](https://ecologie.data.gouv.fr/)
Datasets in ecology. Interesting features : quality of metadata, good short description of datasets, examples of use in past projects, chat with questions/answers between users.

* [defis.data.gouv](https://defis.data.gouv.fr)
Sets of datasets already used by universities for data competitions. Multiple fields (energy, climate, social studies, ...). Interesting features : complete description of the objective, difficulty of the objective (beginner, confirmed, expert), multiple datasets in each competition.

## Problems with installation of R on student notebooks?

If installing R is difficult for any possible reason, a solution is to use R and Rstudio on the INRAE platform **Migale**. In this case, R and Rstudio are run on the server of Migale and no installation on the local notebook is needed. 

Note that creating an account is free.

At this webpage you can find the corresponding FAQ.
https://documents.migale.inrae.fr/posts/documentation/faq/