Beyond the Lectures: Essential Academic Skills with Sage Campus

Looking to sharpen your scholarly research skills while balancing a busy schedule? Sage Campus offers engaging, self-paced courses designed to help you sharpen practical skills for study, research, and the workplace.

What is Sage Campus?

Sage Campus offers a suite of online courses that support learners at various stages of their academic journey. It is designed for:

• Undergraduates who wish to improve their critical thinking skills

• Postgraduates looking to scale up data literacy and data science skills

• Early career researchers seeking resources on getting published and advancing scholarship

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Course Categories

Sage Campus currently offers 5 categories of courses, covering essential skills across the research process:

• Data Literacy

• Research Skills

• Getting Published

• Data Science

• Information Literacy

  
  

Each course is self-contained, allowing you to explore specific topics that interest you most.

Alternatively, you can choose from 13 curated learning pathways designed to meet specific learning objectives.

Using Sage Campus

To begin, you will need to sign up for an account, which allows you to track your progress in courses, as well as quickly resume learning from where you previously left off.

Create an account to keep track of your course progress

When logged in, the Sage Campus’ dashboard displays your completed, in-progress, and assigned courses. On this page, you can also discover and enrol in new courses of interest.

Enrolling in new courses from the Sage Campus dashboard

For those who enjoy learning on the go, Sage Campus is mobile-friendly and works seamlessly on tablets and smartphones.

Course Content and Structure

Each course consists of multiple modules and takes between 1.5 hours and 40 hours to complete, depending on the difficulty and depth of the content covered.

Modules are designed with engaging content, with a range of screencasts, instructor-led videos, texts, interactive content and quizzes. Periodic interactive knowledge checks and practical exercises help to ensure that you are able to apply what you have just learnt.

Course content and resources

Learning Experience

Every course offers its own unique learning experience, utilising a blend of content and instructional methods. Furthermore, the instructors are field experts who helped design the courses, incorporating a range of real-life and academic examples applicable to social science research.

Example of a lesson

Other useful features of the courses include:

• Pre-course and post-course self-assessments for learners to track learning

• Close-captioned videos, with some offering downloadable transcripts

• Full references included in every module

• Supplementary handouts and worksheets are downloadable as PDFs

Whether you are learning how to write a dissertation, use R programming, or aiming to publish your first article, Sage Campus is built to guide you at every stage of your academic journey.

Get Started Today!

You can access Sage Campus through our List of Databases under Sage Campus. Sign up, explore the courses, and start learning at your own pace today!