I’m at the UserR! 2010 conference at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland. This is the main annual event for R users. there have been whole series of presentations on using R in education. The full program lists the Pedagogic talks (3 sessions, and 9 talks, on the first day).
What I’ve seen so far is great work on training people in data analysis, in statistics and (to some extent) in probability, The work is really good, and I have lots of new ideas. What’s been lacking, and what I need to think about more, is the other part. There are at least three other elements,

1. asking intelligent questions, that is questions that are well enough specified to be answered, and well enough considered to actually matter.
2. using research information, and clinical information, to support good clinical decisions
3. data cleaning, data exploration,

Any thoughts?