This blog is by Rachel Crookes, Head of SAGE Campus, about why we chose the topics of our new courses on getting published, what they cover, and who they will most benefit.
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This week SAGE announced the launch of seven brand new online courses on SAGE Campus, to support the teaching and learning of critical topics on data literacy, research skills, and getting published in a journal. Find out about the courses in this blog.
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.
This post is a guest blog by Dr Helen Aveyard, Principal Lecturer for Student Experience in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Oxford Brookes University. In this blog post, Helen discusses the trickiness in teaching topics covered in our Statistical Significance course in particular, launching this February.
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.
Read our guest blog by Dr Zina O’Leary, Senior Fellow at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government and internationally-recognized leader in research methodologies. Zina discusses the importance of choosing and adapting the right research question before delving into research too quickly.
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.
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.
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.