OZNZNeTS

The first OZCOTS was run in 1998 by Brian Phillips with papers by the Australian speakers from the 5th International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS) which had been held in Singapore earlier in 1998. Its success in bringing together Australians involved in teaching statistics resulted in Brian and his Melbourne colleagues organising annual OZCOTS gatherings from 1999 to 2002. In 2006 Helen MacGillivray was awarded one of the first Australian Learning and Teaching Council’s Senior Fellowships, with her fellowship programme to run throughout 2008. As part of her fellowship programme, Helen revived OZCOTS with Brian’s help, and ran it as a two-day satellite to the 2008 Australian Statistical Conference (ASC), with a one-day overlap open to all ASC delegates who could also choose to register for the second day. The OZCOTS 2008 invited speakers were all funded as part of Helen’s fellowship. OZCOTS 2008 was modelled on the successful International Association for Statistical Education’s (IASE) satellite conferences to ISI Conferences, with papers in proceedings and an optional refereeing process offered to authors. The success of OZCOTS 2008 lead to OZCOTS 2010.