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University Data Science Programs Turn to Ethics and the Humanities

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Housed in the university's Internet Institute, the 10-month master’s program is currently in its first year with a cohort of 26 students. The program has courses one would expect of a data science program: programming, statistics and research methods.

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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. We talked about interpreting statistics like percent change, visual representations of data, survey design, and sampling.

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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. We talked about interpreting statistics like percent change, visual representations of data, survey design, and sampling.

Teaching 111
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Inventing a Job-Skills Machine

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Or the internet. One that hits a sweet spot, blending the rigor of traditional research methods with the convenience of modern technology. And yet every once in a while, someone has an idea, puts it to the test and invents something new—which then becomes indispensable. Like the steam engine. Or the telephone. A skills engine.

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