Athabasca University has launched a first-of-its-kind online micro-course to help scholars embrace new ways of sharing knowledge and discoveries for the benefit of society.
Designing Your Research for Impact: Emerging Methods of Mobilization is a free new micro-course designed specifically to help graduate-level scholars produce, share, apply, and exchange ideas and research for maximum benefit. The course was developed in response to a shifting academic landscape that's increasingly open and digital changes that have accelerated during the pandemic.
"New technology and media such as online videos, podcasts and social media are changing how scholars conduct research, produce knowledge, and communicate with other people," said Dr. Andrew Perrin, associate vice-president of research with Athabasca University. "This new micro-course is designed to help scholars be creative about how they share knowledge, embrace digital spaces, and find new ways of engaging audiences."
By improving knowledge mobilization, scholars can put research discoveries into the hands of those who can use them including government and policy makers, industry, communities, non-governmental organizations, and other researchers across disciplines.
Designing Your Research for Impact: Emerging Methods of Mobilization was developed by Athabasca University's Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research Centre, designed and delivered by PowerED by Athabasca University.
