16 Answers to Your Questions about Teaching Online

The call for ‘social distancing’ in the wake of the coronavirus and its attendant COVID-19 disease has seen schools and universities around the world hurriedly attempting to turn their physical classrooms into virtual ones. While this may be best immediate reaction from an epidemiological point of view, from a pedagogic perspective, it has left instructors desperately trying to retrofit and reformat their courses while trying not to unduly disadvantage large numbers of their students. As a means of supporting those attempting to do their best under trying circumstances, SAGE Publishing has drawn from its large body of published and peer-reviewed research to offer the resources below -- free of charge -- to serve teachers and students around the world.

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Impact & Society Chris Burnage Impact & Society Chris Burnage

How can artificial intelligence help us augment our collective intelligence?

Nesta launched the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design back in 2018 at an event jointly hosted by SAGE Publishing. The event featured talks, workshops and discussions exploring the development of collective intelligence as its own field, bridging the worlds of academia and industry together to create a new look domain. October 2019 saw the return of this one day event, jam packed with interactive sessions and an array of attendees from tech to the arts, data science to critical thinking and beyond.

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Impact & Society Chris Burnage Impact & Society Chris Burnage

Big data, music streaming platforms and the social dynamics of music taste

The rise of music streaming platforms, such as Spotify and Apple Music, has contributed to an explosion of new forms of digital data about music consumption practices. As the digital platforms through which consumers access and engage with recorded music and creators distribute it, they are uniquely positioned to create immense volumes of data about what and how people consume music, individually and at scale. From data about what music people search for and skip, to demographic information about who is consuming what, music streaming platforms generate data about almost every micro-interaction with music, amassing enormous databases ripe for further value-extraction.

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Indigenist/Anti-Colonial Research

Although Indigenous scholars have been documenting Indigenous research methodologies, little has been written on the practical considerations of doing research across Indigenous/Settler contexts. Read these open access articles as part of the Indigenous & Intercultural Research focus this month.

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