Five teaching tools built in the Department of Econometrics & Business Statistics, Monash University Malaysia, a Learning and Teaching Grant (L&T) education project. Walk in, no booking required. Free for all students and staff. Try any tool hands-on in five minutes, or take part in the thirty-minute virtual reality study.
The virtual reality study takes about thirty minutes and is the only activity that is measured. Each of the other tools can be tried hands-on in about five minutes.
Taken before any material is shown, to give a baseline for comparison.
The same material every participant receives, condensed to the essentials.
Algebra and geometry in a headset or on screen. Participants choose which.
The participant with the highest VR score of the week wins a mechanical keyboard.
Staff set up the tool you choose. You then use it yourself, changing the inputs and running it on its own data as in a class.
Two or three short questions on how you would use the tool and what would stop you.
Handed out daily to participants while stocks last.
The participant with the highest VR score of the week wins an MKB GMK80 tri-mode keyboard with Kang White switches and Wukong keycaps. The prizes are sponsored by MKB; see how to enter below.
Each day, keycap bundles go to the five highest VR scores and the five highest browser scores. That makes 50 bundles over the week, open to both groups.
The showcase is open from 10am to 5pm, Monday 28 September to Friday 2 October, and is staffed throughout. Walk in and ask for the VR study or a five-minute session.
The prizes are sponsored by MKB. To enter, follow the three steps from the MKB flyer.
Prizes: an MKB GMK80 black tri-mode keyboard with Kang White switches and MKB Wukong keycaps, and MKB keycap bundles.
Each was written for a unit taught in this department and is used in one. They are on the wall in the order a student meets them, from a first course through to research.
Vector Studio draws the geometry of least squares in 3D, and the scene can be rotated by hand. When y is moved, its projection and residual update with it. It has fourteen concepts with a scene for each, a guided tutorial, a quiz and a Sandbox for building vectors, planes and operations from scratch.
166 interactive explorers for the teaching of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Business Analytics and Actuarial Analytics. Each is an interactive page on which every figure recomputes when an input is changed.
Econometrico runs econometric analyses through menus and dialogs. Every analysis is written out as both an R script and a Python script as the student works.
OSEM is a free application for PLS-SEM and CB-SEM. The model is drawn on a canvas and estimated in R on the user's own machine. It has no licence fee and no cap on records, and it runs offline.
The Chatbot Generator turns a unit guide or a set of frequently asked questions into an assistant that answers student enquiries only from that material. Each assistant runs in the coordinator's own Google account.
The explorers cover eight fields.
They cover seven course areas, from ordinary least squares to panel data and volatility models.
A Sandbox is included for building the construction from scratch.
The datasets range from the Longley data to staggered panels.
The three browser tools run their computations on the user's own machine.
The twelve posters on display.
The videos show the real applications being operated by hand. A caption describes each step.
Trailer · 2:00Shows the Vector Sandbox rotated through 360 degrees, a regression in 3D, functional forms in Econometrico, a model estimated in R in OSEM, and the Chatbot Generator answering from a unit guide.
Social cut · 0:30Vertical format for Reels, TikTok and Stories.
On a five-point scale.
Rated positively, but below usefulness.
A projection is difficult to show in two-dimensional teaching materials. The module piloted here presents the geometry of regression in three dimensions: the column space of X, the projection of y onto it, and the residual at a right angle.
Students rated the module as useful but less easy to use, and the lower ease-of-use rating is attributed to the headset and its installation. The module has since been rebuilt as Vector Studio, a browser application needing no headset, no installation and no sign-in; the VR and AR builds remain available.
The pilot measured the module with the Technology Acceptance Model and the NASA Task Load Index. The study at the showcase compares the two routes with a test before and after.
Nazirul Hazim A Khalim, Matt Cabanag, Shalini Nagaratnam, Lee How Chinh, Ewilly Liew, Liang Shiuan-Ni, Nader Kamrani, Lily Wong, Song Cher Pin, Yaser Mohammed Rageh Gamil. Funded by the School of Business Learning Innovation Fund (LIF) 2024 and the Education and Training Academy Learning & Teaching Grant Scheme 2025.
