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This book will teach you how to do data science with R: You’ll learn how to get your data into R, get it into the most useful structure, transform it, visualise it and model it. In this book, you will find a practicum of skills for data science. Just as a chemist learns how to clean test tubes and stock a lab, you’ll learn how to clean data and draw plots—and many other things besides. These are the skills that allow data science to happen, and here you will find the best practices for doing each of these things with R. You’ll learn how to use the grammar of graphics, literate programming, and reproducible research to save time. You’ll also learn how to manage cognitive resources to facilitate discoveries when wrangling, visualising, and exploring data.

Walking questionmark, 3D render, created by Ody Frank, a real person using Blender. Ody is a first year undergraduate studying towards a BA (Hons) Digital Game Art and Design at the Norwich Univers…

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the higher education sector all over the world and has been most disruptive to residential academic institutions that offer mostly, if not wholly, in-person instruction. Of the 1.5 million college faculty members in the United States, about 70% had never taught a virtual course prior to COVID-19. During spring 2020, colleges had to pivot to remote instruction without much notice for faculty to prepare. Some referred to this as “emergency remote teaching” as it did not allow adequate time to thoughtfully plan out a course for a remote format. Over the summer and fall of 2020, many colleges invested in training programs to help faculty design and deliver their courses in a remote format. This article describes an online faculty development program that was created for faculty at a residential liberal arts university that, prior to COVID-19, offered the majority of courses on campus in-person. The objective of the program was to help faculty plan out and design their remote courses in the Blackboard Learning Management System using an instructional design framework known as backward design. This program ended up receiving the 2021 Blackboard Catalyst Award for Training and Professional Development.

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How can we make videoconferencing a rewarding experience? How do we create webinars that don’t suck? Last week I tried a new group exercise which actually turned out well, and I wanted to sh…

UVenus writers respond to the recent controversies related to academic publishing.

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The number of faculty members choosing open educational resources over traditional textbooks has nearly doubled in the last year, but awareness over all remains low.

I am writing this from OpenEd15 in Vancouver. And this is a call to my like-minded compatriots spread across our conference rooms here, but also to the tweeps and digitalactivists I’ve worke…

New report shows alternative textbook model could save students a billion dollars.

Look no further than this guide to what the Creative Commons Licenses mean for you as the user and as the creator. And it's done in plain English!

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Make a difference in your students' lives with free, openly-licensed textbooks. Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.

UDL helps us present content, structure learning, and devise assessments that will be effective for students with different strengths and challenges.

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Universities across the country are giving personal web domains to their students. I picked andrewrikard.com. Davidson College, where I’m a junior, ...

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