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Four brand new online courses launched on SAGE Campus this week to support the teaching and learning of key topics on research skills as part of a new learner pathway: learn skills to write a winning dissertation.

All SAGE Campus courses contain interactive content presented with various activities to assist with your learning process. Each course is broken down into modules in an engaging format that contains videos, audios, flowcharts, quizzes, single and multiple questions, multiple activities, checklists, spreadsheets, narrative slides, tabs and more.

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The courses are mostly aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students to support the learning of skills and research methods, or higher-level students looking for a refresher. Whether you get access to online learning via your institution or have a trial with us, you can enrol on the new courses and get started today.

Visit our course pages below to find out more and download the full syllabi.

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1. Critical Thinking: An Online Course
1. Critical Thinking: An Online Course

This six-unit course equips students with the intellectual skills and practical habits of critical thinking.

10 hrs to complete

2. Critical Reading and Writing
2. Critical Reading and Writing

Equips you with the skills and knowledge to make the jump to higher education. It teaches reading strategies to evaluate and question written and visual texts and builds confidence in structuring a critical writing piece, spelling out arguments and integrating evidence.

2 hrs to complete

3. Conduct a Literature Review
3. Conduct a Literature Review

Guides you through the entire process of preparing a literature review, selecting and analyzing existing literature and structuring and writing a quality literature review. Most importantly, develops skills in using evidence to create and present an engaging and critical argument.

5 hrs to complete

4. Do Your Interviews
4. Do Your Interviews

Guides you through the planning and development of research interviews, from choosing the most suitable interview approach, writing strong questions and preparing the interview with participants. A practical, hands-on course to help capture in-depth research data.

5 hrs to complete

5. Working with Transcribed Data
5. Working with Transcribed Data
6. Analyze Qualitative Data
6. Analyze Qualitative Data

Develops your skills in understanding and evaluating your individual data. It identifies the appropriate approach to coding and uses techniques to categorize and pull themes from their data, building confidence and proficiency in every stage of the data analysis process.

5 hrs to complete

meet our instructors

  • Critical Reading and Writing: Dr Eric Addae-Kyeremeh, spoke to SAGE Campus about his new courses, giving us some advice and explaining why it is important to acquire these critical skills when starting your academic studies.

  • Do Your Interviews: Dr Helen Kara created a beginner’s guide on doing interviews to give us a taster of the first module of the course - a great starting point for the research project.

  • Conduct a Literature Review & Analyze Qualitative Data: Dr Robert Thomas, our instructor for both courses, spoke to SAGE Campus about his inspiration to create the courses and was our guest speaker in an introductory webinar.

As a digital library product, SAGE Campus provides university-wide access to the full suite of 31 self-paced online courses worth over 250 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.