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Webinar recording and Q&A: Top tips for switching to teaching online

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Webinar recording and Q&A: Top tips for switching to teaching online

Watch the recording of our webinar on Top Tips for Switching to Teaching Online, with Dr Tom Chatfield and Elspeth Timmans, who created our SAGE Campus Critical Thinking online course. Tom and Elspeth also answer questions they did not have time to answer in the webinar in this blog.

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Five principles to get undergraduates involved in real-world data science projects

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Five principles to get undergraduates involved in real-world data science projects

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.

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Tom Chatfield: Five things I learned when creating an online course

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Tom Chatfield: Five things I learned when creating an online course

What do the most useful online resources look like and do? This has become a more urgent question than anyone dreamed even a few months ago. Tom Chatfield shares tips on creating good online learning from his experience creating the SAGE Campus course Critical Thinking: An online course.

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What does ‘good’ online learning look like? Five lessons from our work with universities

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What does ‘good’ online learning look like? Five lessons from our work with universities

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, many universities around the world are having to switch to online teaching and remote learning at scale and at speed. A wealth of digital resources exist that can support this sudden shift to online but knowing what ‘good’ online learning looks like has never been easy. This shares five lessons we’ve learned from working with universities about what worked for them, and what sometimes surprised them about student engagement.

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What do students think about our Critical Thinking online course?

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What do students think about our Critical Thinking online course?

Our Critical Thinking online course teaches students practical techniques for confident discerning of critical engagement with sources, evidence, arguments and reasoning. Find out what students at the University of Salford thought of the course and download the infographic of their feedback.

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Upskilling interdisciplinary students at the University of Waterloo in Python

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Upskilling interdisciplinary students at the University of Waterloo in Python

Dr John McLevey, Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada, used SAGE Campus’ Introduction to Python for Social Scientists online course with his graduate students. Read our case study to see feedback from John and his students about why SAGE Campus was a good fit.

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What do future social science graduates look like?

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What do future social science graduates look like?

Technology and digitization are changing the world we live in and, consequently, what skills are required from our future workforce. It is becoming increasingly important for social science graduates to be data literate to be employable and successful. So, what exactly does the future social science graduate look like and what must institutions do to ensure their students excel?

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Preparing postgraduates with required R skills ahead of class

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Preparing postgraduates with required R skills ahead of class

The University of Mannheim used SAGE Campus’ Introduction to R for Social Scientists online course to prepare students with the required R programming skills ahead of their IPSDS course. Read about their experience in this case study.

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Why universities are switching to R for teaching social science

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Why universities are switching to R for teaching social science

Higher education institutions traditionally used SPSS when teaching social science. But there’s a shift toward R; a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. Find out the top reasons why your institution should switch to R.

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What is social data science and how is it done?

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What is social data science and how is it done?

What is social data science and how is it done? Taha Yasseri, course instructor on the SAGE Campus Research Design in Social Data Science online course, explains the big data-driven approach to social science research that everyone is talking about.

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74% of social researchers say they want to learn data science

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74% of social researchers say they want to learn data science

The majority of social scientists and social researchers report that they want or need to learn data science skills, according to a recent survey by SAGE Campus. What does this mean for higher education institutions?

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