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Is It Ethical to Run Learning Experiments On Students Without Their Knowledge?

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But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm? Providing the Spark Jenessa Peterson, director of learning engineering at the Learning Agency, touched off the discussion in a Google Group run by her organization with the question: Is A/B testing between two benign conditions without participants' knowledge OK?

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

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PhotoVoice is a visual method used to understand the world through the eyes of those experiencing it. It is often used as a research method in the social sciences and is typically used to study underserved populations and how they experience life—such as homeless youth, victims of trauma, and many more. Clover, D.

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Teaching Information Literacy in an Age of Misinformation 

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I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. The asynchronous discussion gives students a chance to practice these skills independently, while learning from each other’s examples.

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Learning by Working Together: Developing and Checking for Group Integration Across Diverse Disciplinary Cohorts

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Integrative questionnaire design: In delivering a social research methods module, a shared questionnaire document could be an active boundary object. This session could serve as a preliminary discussion before creating a flow chart, or it could come after the chart’s development as a practical application. Wenger, Etienne.

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ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects 

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as a tool in research project supervision. I also discuss how to instruct students to include ChatGPT in their research methodology when using the tool to refine research questions. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10. References ‘AI and Web3: How Are They Related? Rather Labs Careers’.

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Teaching Information Literacy in an Age of Misinformation 

Faculty Focus

I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. The asynchronous discussion gives students a chance to practice these skills independently, while learning from each other’s examples.

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iPads Did Not Revolutionize Campus Teaching (But a Few Colleges Give Every Student One)

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As a result, students can spend more time participating in classroom activities and discussion.” While Rodriguez is a big fan of the iPad and says she’d purchase the device herself even if the university didn’t provide one, she thinks students still prefers traditional research methods. “I