Education Research that Matters: Applying Research to Your Teaching Practice
Make your teaching better by learning how to use and apply education research methods with this free online teaching course from the University of Birmingham.
Duration
4 weeks
Weekly study
3 hours
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Explore how engaging with research can transform your teaching practice
As an educator, research provides you with the opportunity to improve your teaching and better support your students. On this course, you’ll discover how to find education research, assess its quality, and apply its insights.
You’ll explore and evaluate research from a range of online and peer-reviewed sources as you learn to assess their reliability and usability. You’ll also discover powerful search techniques and learn to analyse your research findings.
Upon completion of this course, you’ll feel confident finding and engaging with research and applying it to your teaching practice.
What topics will you cover?
- Week 1. How might engaging with research transform your practice? Popular sources: Google search and its perils or how to go wrong on Twitter.
- Week 2. How might you go about locating research to inform your practice? Major research organisations and the research they do and promote.
- Week 3. How might you go about selecting the most significant research to engage with? Open access sources: finding great research that’s free.
- Week 4. How might you most effectively judge the research you come into contact with and move to implement? Is it any good and what does it tell me?
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