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Learners applaud Sage Campus for its accessible platform, trustworthy instructors, diverse interactive elements, and practical course content, making it an invaluable resource for librarians seeking high-quality, engaging, and globally trusted educational materials.
This blog post brings SAGE Campus' eight courses on ‘Getting Published’ and how you can join the 'How to Get Published' free webinar series to complement your publishing journey.
Professor Roger Watt, the instructor on the SAGE Campus Unlocking Statistics: from hypothesis to outcome online course, talks a bit about the course and shares his experience when teaching statistics to social science students.
At SAGE Campus, we have poured years of experience in course design into our current suite of courses. The pedagogical mix of content types included in each course is carefully devised based on well-known learning design principles.
Dr Robert Thomas gives advice to students and researchers and speaks about his new courses, ‘Conduct a Literature Review’ and ‘Analyze Qualitative Data’, both launching on SAGE Campus in January 2022.
This post is a guest blog by Dr James Allen-Robertson, instructor on our Collecting Social Media Data online course. James talks about computational methods, programming experience and the benefits of online courses.
Kelly Trivedy talks a bit about herself and her inspiration for becoming an online course instructor at SAGE Campus, creating her new course launching in July, Plan Your Project.
Watch an interview with our expert course instructor, Dr Zina O’Leary, about the importance and benefits of online learning, the power research has in evidence-based decision making, and why it is essential for institutions to get it right when teaching topics on research skills.
This post is a guest blog by Dr Phillip Brooker, on Programming-as-Social-Science (PaSS): A Matter of Form and Content. Phillip is an instructor on our ‘Introduction to Python’ and ‘Intermediate Python Skills’ online courses.
This post is an interview with Dr. Janet Salmons, instructor on our Gather Your Data Online course about why she made a course with SAGE and who she thinks it will benefit.
In this guest blog, Dr James Allen-Robertson, the instructor of the SAGE Campus Collecting Social Media Data online course, covers how his course can support researchers unlock a wealth of insights available from social media data.
In this guest blog, Charlie Joey Hadley, the instructor of the SAGE Campus Interactive Visualization with R online course, covers how to create better stories from your research data with interactive data charts.
In this guest blog, Charlie Joey Hadley, the instructor of the SAGE Campus Interactive Visualization with R online course discusses why faculty need to stop teaching the Frankenstein monster of combining Excel, R and MS Word - and instead teaching using RMarkdown.
In this guest blog, Dr Tom Chatfield, the author of the SAGE Campus Critical Thinking online course, discusses how critical thinking is built into the foundational skills elements of all kinds of higher education courses.
In this guest blog, Dr Tom Chatfield, the author of the SAGE Campus Critical Thinking online course, discusses how faculty and instructors can best use online courses as to support their teaching.
Read our next post in a series of guest blogs by Dr Zina O’Leary, Senior Fellow at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government and internationally-recognized leader in research methodologies. Zina is the author of SAGE Campus’ upcoming Present Your Research, Research Proposal and Research Question online courses, launching in 2021. In this blog she discusses how to more influential when presenting your research.
In this guest blog, Professor Julie Scott Jones, Head of Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, discusses the challenges in teaching quantitative methods - and how this changes when you’re teaching remotely on Microsoft Teams.
By Jae Yeon Kim, computational social scientist and PhD candidate in Political Science at UC Berkeley, writes this guest blog on getting undergraduates involved in real-life data science projects; connecting them with community impact groups, entrepreneurship ventures, and educational initiatives to provide them with hands-on and team-based research opportunities outside the classroom.
Creating good content is an age old challenge for educators. And this challenge is only exasperated when the content you’re creating is online. Last month, we published a guest blog by Tom Chatfield on lessons he learned when creating Critical Thinking: An Online Course. In this blog, we expand on Tom’s lessons from our perspective as editors of SAGE Campus online courses.
Watch the free 1 hour webinar recording by Dr Taha Yasseri of the Oxford Internet Institute to learn about the role of natural experiments in social data science and see his answers to your questions.
