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I hope you’ve enjoyed the information I have been sharing related to research during my last 2 years as research coordinator, even if they are not relevant to you at this point in your journey. All of my posts are available on my IS Coordinator blog site (https://drlynnekennette.blogspot.com/ or http://www.drlynnekennette.ca/) for you to reference when you need to know the information.

As you prepare for summer, I thought I would suggest some scholarly and/or research-related podcasts and blogs.

Blogs

The Research Whisperer: https://researchwhisperer.org/ “The Research Whisperer is dedicated to the topic of doing research in academia. We’re here to help and encourage.”

The Learning Scientists (also has a podcast; see below): https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/ “Our main research focus is on the science of learning. Our vision is to make scientific research on learning more accessible to students, teachers, and other educators.”

The Scholarly Kitchen: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/ “The mission of the Society for Scholarly Publishing is “[t]o advance scholarly publishing and communication, and the professional development of its members through education, collaboration, and networking.” The Scholarly Kitchen is a moderated and independent blog aimed to help fulfill this mission by bringing together differing opinions, commentary, and ideas, and presenting them openly.”

Data Colada: https://datacolada.org/ “Posts involve quantitative analyses, replications, and/or discussions of interest to at least three behavioral scientists [the three authors of the blog].”

Faculty Focus: https://www.facultyfocus.com/ “Faculty Focus publishes three articles each week written by instructors, teachers, instructional designers, and others from around the world, where they provide insight into what’s working (and what’s not) in the classroom and online.”

 

Podcast

Research Remix: https://soundcloud.com/user-604314719/research-remix-episode-1 or https://durham.college/podcast  DC’s own Michael Williams-Bell has a podcast about research at our college!

The Learning Scientists (also has a blog; see above):  https://www.learningscientists.org/learning-scientists-podcast “Our main research focus is on the science of learning. Our vision is to make scientific research on learning more accessible to students, teachers, and other educators.”

Not so Standard Deviations (stats): https://nssdeviations.com/ “Roger Peng and Hilary Parker talk about the latest in data science and data analysis in academia and industry.”

Cult of Pedagogy: https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/pod “Cult of Pedagogy is run by a team of people committed to making you more awesome in the classroom.”

Final Remarks

I hope you’ll check out some of these suggestions. I wish you all a wonderful (and restful!) summer and I look forward to our return in September where we can lightheartedly judge each other based on our pizza toppings :)



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