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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…

Angela Jenks on episode 289 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

How to create an active, engaged learning environment in a large classroom setting (250+ students) using technology and flipped classroom techniques.

Instructional materials are the content or information conveyed within a course. These include the lectures, readings, textbooks, multimedia components, and other resources in a course. These materials can be used in both face-to-face and online classrooms; however, some must be...

In 2005, more than 120 U.S. universities came to the aid of some 20 colleges and universities that had been impacted by Hurricane Katrina through shared online classes.

A number of colleges are adopting free textbooks or creating their own. All agree it’s a complicated process.

Equity in education is one of the most compelling moral issues of our time, but the gulf between our approach to equity and the strategies…

Matthew 28 is the most well-known biblical record of what is commonly referred to as “the Great Commission.” But a new Barna report reveals that a surprising proportion of churchgoing Christians lack familiarity with Jesus’ famous command to “go and make disciples of all nations.”

Through creating and spreading open educational resources, students learn more and make an impact on the world, writes Christina Hendricks.

Institutions in several states are now required to label courses with OER and affordable materials. Proponents cheer the move toward transparency, though some challenges remain.

Keynote given at Metropolitan State’s TLTS conference in Denver, CO. A Sense of Audience I’m going to start by telling a story about how I got here. I’ve mentioned this on my blog once or tw…

This guide provides instructor a basic understanding of Open Educational Resources (OER), including how to find, evaluate, use, and adapt OER materials for their own curriculum.

OER Finding and Adopting Guide for Instructors: Worksheet Define your need: Find selected open resources or replace a whole textbook? Keywords to search for topic, unit, or course Format or medium preference Search: Try many different sites and many different keywords and strategies Keep ...