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Using enterprise social media tools like Yammer, Chatter and Jive - or even Facebook and protected Twitter accounts - allow for almost boundless opportunities for social learning.
You can:
- Increase productivity with communities of practice and let employees from all over the world collaborate…
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Making Research Real:
Looking for ways to get your students engaged in statistics and survey research methods?
Our ESRC RDI Workshops are for lecturers & tutors looking to bring research to life for their students. Join us this Autumn for ideas & support on teaching quantitative methods. We’ll be running face to face workshops, live online seminars and building an online community of practice. Our regional learning networks will provide you with an opportunity to:
Network with your fellow lecturers from local HE
Reflect on your teaching and sharing best practice
Learn new techniques and hear about new resources for teaching & learning
Hear from experts in survey research practice, have the chance to visit one of the leading social research organisations supporting this scheme
You can sign up for these free sessions here: https://www.research.net/s/ESRCMRR2012
If you have any questions or require further information please contact: mrr@natcen.ac.uk
Hi, we’ve been talking about the ethics of online research on social media platforms and using social media platforms as part of our NCRM network - you can read the updated Storify including the transcript from our recent tweetchat here: http://storify.com/jess1ecat/new-social-media-new-social-science-pt-ii.
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The Storify so far of our ESRC NCRM network of methodological innovation exploring whether social media are blurring the boundaries of traditional social research methods. Should social science researchers embrace social media and, if we do, what are the implications for our methods and practice? How do new social media change our perceptions of ethical practice? Do new social media blur the boundaries between qualitative and quantitative research? You can join the conversation on our various platforms, start here: www.natcen.ac.uk/nsmnss/. Read on to see what we’ve been up to.
The basics of engaging students. People talk about all these fancy strategies for student engagement and inclusion, but it’s pretty simple - just talk less. If you do, amazing things will happen. You’ll realize you like your students more than you thought you did. Your students will like you more than they thought they did. They will like coming to class. They will stop you in the hallway to say hi. They will do their homework more often, and with more quality. They will tell other teachers that they like you. You will like your job more. And you’ll find that the inverse of this graph is also true: the more they talk the less bored you will be.
Give them some control over what to study. Put them in front of the room. Ask them for help with rubrics. Have them write your tests. Bring in an expert. Have them interview each other. Have a seminar — but whatever you do, for pete’s sake, talk less.
