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This full range of materials and services assists in the development and delivery of analytics-based courses.
Curriculum Resources – These services, programs and materials assist in course development and program design.
- Academic Trainer's Kits –These kits are free of charge for university instructors. Kits contain course notes, slides and data sets from many of SAS' public training courses. Instructors can use this material in its entirety or incorporate select sections into their already existing instructional materials as they see fit. (Click here to download a brochure about the kits.) View available courses.
- SAS® Curriculum Builder –
This series of teaching materials is designed around an analytical topic. Modular materials include teaching notes, sample syllabi, presentation materials and resource links. Download PDF Version (PDF: 123KB)
- Curriculum Consulting –
SAS can work with you to incorporate SAS into your classroom or certificate or degree-granting program.
- Certificate Programs – SAS will work closely with your institution to develop certificate programs in a variety of areas of SAS expertise. Designed to recognize students with advanced SAS knowledge, the program can use pre-existing courses or ones newly developed in consultation with SAS. While your university will administer the program, the certificate will be co-sponsored by SAS, assuming a set of minimum requirements for semester or course credit hours and topics covered are met. Certificates are awarded after the successful completion of the course requirements.
Programs exist for data mining, statistical methods, data analysis, and programming. Certificate programs in other areas of SAS expertise are available if interest warrants.
Read about Oklahoma State University's Data Mining Certificate program.
Software – You can license SAS software in a variety of ways depending on your school's needs. Special bundles of SAS software for teaching and research are offered at academic discounts.
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SAS Course Development Mini-Grants – This competitive grant program offers participating faculty a six-month grant of SAS software to participants who evaluate the software with an eye toward creating a course using SAS software.
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- SAS® OnDemand for Academics – This software gives professors and university students the analytic and reporting power of SAS for their coursework. Providing SAS over the Web makes the software easy to access and use - no expensive hardware requirements, software administration, or disks to install.
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SAS Learning Edition–
SAS users at all levels, from novice to advanced, will appreciate this inexpensive, intuitive and easy-to-use personal learning version of SAS software.
- SAS Data Mining for the Classroom – To make data and text mining software more readily available to professors and teachers for use in the classroom, SAS offers a stand-alone bundle that includes SAS® Enterprise Miner™ for data mining and SAS® Text Miner for text mining.
- Point-and-Click – SAS® Enterprise Guide – This is an easy-to-use, point-and-click interface to the power of SAS. Many professors are including SAS in course curricula to provide their students the necessary skills for the competitive global marketplace. SAS Enterprise Guide runs on the Windows operating environment. To see a demonstration of SAS Enterprise Guide, click here.
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Point-and-Click – JMP for Statistical Discovery – The JMP Academic Partnership offers professors and students the opportunity to teach, learn and develop research projects using the full capabilities of JMP used by corporations worldwide – at a fraction of the corporate licensing fees. JMP runs on the Mac and Windows operating environments.
Publications – Bringing you real-world experience, illuminating examples and thoughtful insights on the use of SAS, books published through SAS Press are a must-read for anyone in academia.
- Books – SAS Press offers many books particularly suited for use in higher education. This list of bestsellers is organized by these categories: basic statistics, advanced analytics/predictive modeling, research/clinical, data mining and business intelligence.
- Evaluation Copies – SAS Publishing is pleased to offer our products to qualified college professors who are interested in teaching SAS.
Webcasts –
These free, on-demand Webcasts present a variety of topics, including the Fast Forward Web series. This series focuses on the art of teaching analytics in the university classroom.
SAS Academic Newsletters –
Get three free e-newsletters that focus on business school activities, research initiatives, and student and teacher involvement at research institutions, universities and business schools in partnership with SAS worldwide.
White Papers – Download free SAS white papers on a variety of topics relating to the use of analytics in business and education.
SORSE – SAS On-Line Resources for Statistics Education – This resource provides data, practice exercises, simple step-by-step directions for running analyses using SAS’ point-and-click interface, SAS Enterprise Guide, and thousands of sample questions that can be used for class, homework, quizzes and student self-review.
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