Improving Business Decision-Making Skills with MyLab Statistics
Join Nathan Torno of Collin College and Serina Al Haddad of Rollins College to discuss how two new offerings in MyLab Statistics, Auto-Graded Excel Projects and StatCrunch Projects, can help students develop those important skills for their future career.
In this webinar, we discuss the importance of learning how to use data to analyze information, make business decisions, and how two new offerings in MyLab Statistics, Auto-Graded Excel Projects and StatCrunch Projects, can help students develop those important skills for their future career.
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Nathan Torno, Collin College
Nathan Torno obtained his undergraduate degree in Mathematics and his Masters in Statistics from Texas A&M University. He is one of the primary developers of StatCrunch, a web-based software integrated into Pearson MyLab Statistics, allowing students to quickly and easily analyze data sets from their textbook, as well as providing the opportunity to access tens of thousands of shared data sets, create and conduct online surveys, interact with a full library of applets, and perform complex analyses. He previously taught Statistics courses at Texas A&M University and currently teaches part-time at a community college in North Dallas.
Dr. Serina Haddad
Serina Al Haddad, PhD, teaches classes in business statistics and operations management. Before coming to Rollins, she taught classes in business statistics and analytics at Stetson University for three years and received the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award in 2017. Dr. Haddad also taught undergraduate and graduate classes in statistics and decision analysis at the University of Central Florida (UCF). She completed her doctorate at UCF in management systems. She has more than fourteen years of experience working in both academia and industry. She held multiple positions in statistical quality control, customer relationship management, institutional development, and business process reengineering.
Her research interests include statistics, business analytics, innovation, and organizational development. Dr. Haddad is a freelance consultant and trainer. She is one of the main authors of Excel Grader projects in MyLab® Statistics. She has worked with many organizations including Junior Achievement, State University of New York, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). She is a member of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE). She was a founding member and served as president of the IISE student chapter at her undergraduate university. Dr. Haddad’s working experience brings a lot of real-life examples to the classroom. Her students appreciate her passionate teaching, which keeps them highly engaged throughout the learning process.
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