Strategies for Teaching a Novel Approach to Handling Uncertainty Scientifically via Internet

• Main Authors: Xiaomin Zhai, Elart von Collani
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kassel University Press 2009-06-01
• Series: International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)
• Subjects: bernoulli; stochastics; online; education; virtual; classroom
• Online Access: http://online-journals.org/i-jet/article/view/694

More than 300 years ago Jakob Bernoulli made an attempt to initiate and to develop the Science of Prediction, which is in Latin Ars conjectandi and in Greek Stochastike. The aim of Bernoulli’s stochastics is not to discover “truth”, but to make reliable and accurate predictions as the basis for making appropriate decisions. Only recently, Jakob Bernoulli’s plan of a Science of Prediction was resumed by Elart von Collani, who further developed it to a unified theory of uncertainty. In this paper, an effective online environment is presented and discussed for fostering the fundamental ideas of Bernoulli’s stochastics and the techniques developed within this new scientific approach.