Online Educational Library


Digital Scholar Webinar: Effective Use of Academic and Social Media Networks for Endorsing your Publication

This webinar will give a detailed overview of the recommended strategies for effective research promotion on academic and social media platforms and optimizing visibility of the published articles.

communication, dissemination, & teamwork

Digital Scholar Webinar: How to Get Indexed in International Citation Databases

Citations—often termed as intellectual transactions, acknowledgment of intellectual debts, and conceptual association—are a link between the author’s current study and already published work. It not only provides credibility to the author’s work but also helps funders evaluate the impact of the research study.

communication, dissemination, & teamwork, other

Digital Scholar Webinar: What We Can Learn About Successful Citizen Science from Microbiome Research

This webinar highlights how a citizen science approach combined with an open research network helped to collect study samples from more than 20,000 participants, so far. You will learn what it takes to set up, promote and execute a citizen science project.

research & study design, regulatory & quality sciences, study & site management

Digital Scholar Webinar: Disseminating Scientific Papers via Twitter: Practical Insights and Research Evidence

The course provides an overview of Altmetrics research and present the challenges – including methods and first results – of classifying Twitter user groups, with a particular focus on identifying members of the general public and measuring societal impact. The course will provide hands-on exercises and instructions on how to analyze by whom, when, and how scientific papers are shared on Twitter.

communication, dissemination, & teamwork

Digital Scholar Webinar: Recruiting Participants Online for Survey and Intervention Research

This webinar will describe lessons learned from a series of studies that used social media websites to recruit U.S. veterans into two survey research efforts and a randomized controlled trial addressing heavy alcohol use. As an increasing number of research studies are moving online, the methods described to reach this typically difficult-to-engage group using the Internet alone can be applied to a number of other populations and research designs.

study & site management, research & study conduct

Digital Scholar Webinar: Developing a professional social media presence on Twitter – Tips and strategies for researchers and academics

This webinar provides social media guidance for researchers and academics who are looking to build a professional, digital presence. Social media case studies, step-by-step instructions for conducting a “digital audit” and recommended tips for social media use are presented.

leadership & professionalism, communication, dissemination, & teamwork

Education Resource Center Series: Trauma-informed Teaching: Using Best Practices in Course Design to Mitigate the Effects of Trauma among Students

Participants will learn about Patrick Lencioni’s widely distributed team-building model outlined in The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team: A fable.

other

Career Development Seminar Series: Leadership and Team Building - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable.

Participants will learn about Patrick Lencioni’s widely distributed team-building model outlined in The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team: A fable.

leadership & professionalism, communication, dissemination, & teamwork

Virtual REDCap Workshop

In this workshop, you will learn to create and build your database from the REDCap Toolkit, learn to use your database including data entry, retrieval, and scheduling, and more.

data management & informatics

Digital Scholar Webinar: Transparent, Open, and Reproducible Research

This webinar will introduce open science to a clinical and translational research audience. It will begin by introducing the opportunities and challenges motivating the wider open science movement, such as accelerating scientific discovery, broadening access to scientific knowledge, and irreproducibility. It will then provide an overview of core open science practices for health researchers to adopt. Lastly, it will overview actions other key stakeholders in the scientific ecosystem can take to support open science.

communication, dissemination, & teamwork

Education Resource Center Series: Managing Stress in Research Courses through Intentional Course Design: Resolutions for a New Semester

This 90-minute interactive workshop acknowledges the stress affecting students and instructors--particularly related to research courses--as we begin a new semester and provides effective course design practices that can aid in managing that stress.

leadership & professionalism, communication, dissemination, & teamwork, other

Digital Scholar Webinar: Breaking Down (Brick) Walls: Switching to Remote, Virtual, & Decentralized Clinical Trials

In this 60-minute webinar, Dr. Tenaerts presents the work of the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) and discusses two main topics regarding digital clinical trials: (1) moving ongoing trials to remote and (2) planning for decentralized trials.

study & site management, research & study conduct