The META Lab at the Middlebury Institute in Monterey is piloting instructional modules that provide free, asynchronous, online demonstrations of how to use Microsoft Excel for a wide variety of tasks. The modules are being expanded and can support custom pages for interested faculty, programs, groups, or initiatives that have a need for Excel use or training.
Midd.data welcomed David Munro (Economics) for this year’s first Lightning Talk on Wednesday, 9/21 on creating a new unemployment dataset, one of our best economic indicators.
Lightning Talk by Damascus Kafumbe, Associate Professor of Music, on Towards a Decolonial Pedagogy: African Music and Dance Performance in the American Academy.
Learn how Economics Professor Erin Wolcott and her students mined unemployment data to better understand the impact of the pandemic on employment trends.
The Center for the Blue Economy’s Tony Castelletto describes how the Center for the Blue Economy uses data to conduct translational work in environmental economics.
Lightning Talk by Kelly Lytle Hernández on Million Dollar Hoods: Mapping the Cost of Mass Incarceration, an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecture.
Lightning Talk by Hang Du, Professor of Chinese, on Linguistic Development during Study Abroad: Research on a corpus of spoken learner Chinese.
Lightning Talk by Shawna Shapiro, Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, on Building a Community of Practice around Critical Language Awareness Pedagogy.
| by Mike Roy
The Social Science Research Modules project continues to make progress in its efforts to create shareable modules for learning how to conduct research in the social sciences. They completed a module on surveys, are developing a module on interviews that will be beta tested this spring, and have plans for creating two additional modules on the fundamentals of research and data analysis. You can learn more about this effort, and gain access to these modules at the project’s website.
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