Are you looking for a more efficient way to navigate Sage Campus and find the courses that best fit your students’ data literacy needs? Look no further than our brand new data literacy subject map, containing modules hand-picked by our editorial team. One of five brand new subject maps, this taxonomy offers a focused approach to learning and can be used to meet a wide range of academic goals.
In today's digital age, data literacy has become an essential skill, but for many students and researchers, working with data can be a daunting task. Fortunately, Sage Campus offers a variety of courses to help learners build confidence in interpreting, managing, analyzing, and describing data.
Below are just a few of the learner goals covered in our curated data literacy subject map.
Building Key Numeracy Skills
Ideal for students who need support with foundational numerical concepts, including averages, percentages, rounding, fractions, and ratios.
Outlined in the subject map are key modules from Know Your Numbers and See Numbers in Data which will empower students to approach numerical tasks and quantitative research with confidence. Our beginner-level courses can be revisited at any time, making Sage Campus the ideal resource for building key numeracy skills and saving precious class time for more subject-specific queries.
Managing and Organising Data
Ideal for learners keen to improve data management proficiency, including key programming skills covered in Introduction to Python and Practical Data Management with R.
With Sage-quality material and frequent practical examples, students can use Sage Campus courses to start programming or build upon existing knowledge. Researchers can find modules on data gathering, cleaning and analysis, included in the Collecting Social Media Data course. Assigning Sage Campus courses as pre-requisites is an excellent way to gauge the different ability levels of your cohort, flagging early on where students may need support.
Working with different types of data sets
This section is ideal for students who need to build confidence working with data sets, whether qualitative or quantitative.
Courses include Analyze Qualitative Data and Gather Your Data Online, both essential for evaluating and conducting different data methods and developing a sampling strategy. Researchers wishing to pick up new data analysis methods will find this subject map highly relevant. Research Design in Social Data Science offers an excellent introduction to the big data-driven approach to research, with examples from social data science publications and projects.
These learner outcomes highlight how faculty can unlock student potential with the many data literacy topics covered on Sage Campus by supplementing their curriculum or as part of a flipped or blended learning classroom. Learners can also refer to the subject maps in their own time, building independent study habits.
Stay tuned for our upcoming posts to see more subject map spotlights or discover them all here today.
About Sage Campus
As a digital library product, Sage Campus provides university-wide access to the full suite of 37 self-paced online courses worth over 280 hours of online learning for skills and research methods. Librarians can find out more about how Sage Campus works for institutions and get a 30-day free institutional trial. Faculty members, students and researchers who would like to use Sage Campus for their teaching or own learning can recommend Sage Campus to their library.