This post is an interview with John MacInnes, the expert instructor and author of SAGE Campus’ upcoming Statistical Significance, See Numbers in Data, Understand Probability, and Know Your Numbers online courses, launching in 2021.
In this guest blog, Charlie Joey Hadley, the instructor of the SAGE Campus Interactive Visualization with R online course explains how to use R for reproducible data workflows with RMarkdown and RStudio projects.
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, Dr Zina O’Leary, instructor and author of our upcoming Research Question, Research Proposal, and Present Your Research online courses discusses the steps to communicating with impact when presenting research.
In this guest blog, Dr Tom Chatfield, the author of the SAGE Campus Critical Thinking online course, discusses why critical thinking is an important skill for students - and why institutions must urgently equip students with these skills.
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.
SAGE Campus is now available as a digital library resource and is expanding to support for the teaching and learning of a wide range of skills and research methods that can be applied across all stages of academic study; from undergraduates looking to critically assess information to researchers looking to report their data and publish their research.
Register for our upcoming webinars for librarians and decision makers to learn about the new SAGE Campus now we have pivoted to a digital library product, and how our online courses can benefit students, researchers and faculty alike.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Earlier this year, Professor Giuseppe A. Veltri, Associate Professor at the University of Trento, used two SAGE Campus online courses to both refresh and expand the skills of his Masters students. Giuseppe described his experience of using the courses and the motivations behind his decision.
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.
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.
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?
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.