Check out this open-access special issue on "Research Ethics and COVID-19" and an interview with the editors.

How are researchers changing their attitudes and approaches to respond to the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic? Learn about emerging methods that will be useful as researchers make greater use of online methods.

When reading a visualization, is what we see really what we get? There are a lot of ways that visualizations can mislead us, such that they appear to show us something interesting that disappears on closer inspection. Such visualization mirages can lead us to see patterns or draw conclusions that don’t exist in our data. We analyze these quarrelsome entities and provide a testing strategy for dispelling them.

There’s a validity problem with automated content analysis. In this post, Dr. Chung-hong Chan introduces a new tool that provides a set of simple and standardized tests for frequently used text analytic tools and gives examples of validity tests you can apply to your research right away.

Trena Paulus and Jessica Lester discuss changes in online research and updates to their book, Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World.

Use more than one approach to keep online learners engaged!

A research conversation about online learning and dissertation preparation with Dr. Linda Bloomberg.

Help struggling students and keep them engaged.

Make e-learning accessible!

SAGE Concept Grant winner Dr Nechama Brodie introduces the Homicide Media Tracker, a tool currently under development that will enable the collection, curation and analysis of crime data in media. Why is it needed? What kind of data will the tool be able to collect? And what insights can this data afford researchers?

Dr. Ravitch suggests pedagogical thinking for online teaching and learning in the midst of a crisis.