Teaching with webR

useR 2025

Elijah Meyer & Maria Tackett

Welcome!

Introductions

Dr. Elijah Meyer

Dr. Maria Tackett

Your turn!

  • Name

  • Where do you teach / have recently taught?

  • What is your favorite course to teach?

Website

bit.ly/useR-2025-teach

Computing

WiFi

  • Duke attendees can use DukeBlue

  • Duke also offers eduroam and Duke Visitor

R & RStudio

Will be accessed through your personal Docker URL. More to come!

Schedule

webR: First day of class

First day of class

🧠 - mindset and perspective

🍰 - webR

First day of class

Talk about mindset and perspective

  • The expectation is not to be an expert on the first day, or after one day

  • Give them “permission” to get excited and make mistakes

  • Calm anxiety around coding

First day of class

Start with cake 🍰

First day of class

🍰

  • Get students excited
  • Make them understand why they are in the class
  • Make them want to come back and keep learning

webR

webR is a version of the statistical language R compiled for the browser

  • No local installation

  • No downloading anything

Day-1

webR link


user-tutorials-2025.github.io/teaching-with-r-github/demo/demo-webr.html

Q&A / Discussion