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Nine brand new online courses are being added to the SAGE Campus platform this July. The courses cover key topics on research skills, data literacy and getting published. Watch our on-demand webinars with John MacInnes and Rachel Crookes to find out more about what the courses cover and register your interest to try free modules of the coming courses.
Nine brand new online courses are being added to the SAGE Campus platform this July. The courses cover key topics on research skills, data literacy and getting published. Read our blog to find out more about what the courses cover and register your interest to try free modules of the courses that are coming soon.
This post is a guest blog by Dr Phillip Brooker, on Programming-as-Social-Science (PaSS): A Matter of Form and Content. Phillip is an instructor on our ‘Introduction to Python’ and ‘Intermediate Python Skills’ online courses.
This post is an interview with Dr. Janet Salmons, instructor on our Gather Your Data Online course about why she made a course with SAGE and who she thinks it will benefit.
In this guest blog, Dr James Allen-Robertson, the instructor of the SAGE Campus Collecting Social Media Data online course, covers how his course can support researchers unlock a wealth of insights available from social media data.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
