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Making a Sudden Transition to Teaching Online:  Suggestions and Resources
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March 16, 2020

Making a Sudden Transition to Teaching Online: Suggestions and Resources

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16 Answers to Your Questions about Teaching Online
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March 16, 2020

16 Answers to Your Questions about Teaching Online

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Higher Education’s COVID-19 Online Pivot: Students
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March 16, 2020

Higher Education’s COVID-19 Online Pivot: Students

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Higher Education’s COVID-19 Online Pivot: Institutions
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March 16, 2020

Higher Education’s COVID-19 Online Pivot: Institutions

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14 Tips for Improving Your Online Teaching

14 Tips for Improving Your Online Teaching

Hundreds of thousands of teachers are busy working to move their face-to-face lessons online. Designing online courses takes significant time and effort.
Right now, however, we need a simpler formula. Here are 14 quick tips to make online teaching better, from an expert in online learning.

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Instantly Shifting Classes Online Is Not Trivial

Instantly Shifting Classes Online Is Not Trivial

Carefully implemented, online learning can make university education more accessible, affordable, interactive and student-centered. However, the way that it is being presented as a simple and practical solution to coronavirus fears, capable of replacing face-to-face teaching for a significant period, is misleading.

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International Students in China: Divergent Journeys and Multidimensional Lives

International Students in China: Divergent Journeys and Multidimensional Lives

Mengwei Tu, a lecturer in sociology at East China University of Science and Technology, describes her encounters with two postgraduate students from Pakistan. They highlight both China’s potential to become an attractive destination for international students and the difficulties involved in the internationalization of a society that was isolated from the outside world for much of its recent history.

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Get Creative! MethodSpace Live Webinar Recording

Get Creative! MethodSpace Live Webinar Recording

In order to engage in real-time and have a conversation about thought-provoking approaches, MethodSpace is having a live series of webinars. The first one was Get Creative! Research with Pictures & Stories, watch the first one now.

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Why is Social Theory So Boring?

Why is Social Theory So Boring?

The roots of sociology lie among a group of engaged, engaging and vibrant people who often risked their well-being, or even their lives, to advance their ideas. So what happened to suck much of the life out of the discipline?

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Training Social Scientists for the Future

Training Social Scientists for the Future

Calling all social scientists. How were you trained? How are you keeping up (or not) with new developments in this rapidly changing digital world? How are you training your students? This was the subject of an event sponsored by SAGE Ocean as part of the ESRC’s 2018 Festival of Social Science. Comment on the post

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Teaching Foundational Concepts by Using the SEE-I Process

Teaching Foundational Concepts by Using the SEE-I Process

Dr. Maxine Atkinson shares her thoughts and challenges on how application is a crucial step to teaching foundational concepts. “One of the challenges we all face when teaching a foundational concept is making sure that student comprehension is strong and that they will be able to apply the concept throughout the course.”

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Should Universities Be Parents?

Should Universities Be Parents?

Increasingly, says Robert Dingwall, UK universities are taking a more paternal role in the lives of their students, taking — or perhaps resuming — more active roles in addressing their charges’ mental health, criminal conduct and self-care.

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