• FREE Intermediate Level Course: Using Data to Aid Organisational Change

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    10 Hours self guided study.

    Organisations need change in order to respond to new challenges, making the change is not staightforward.

    This course explores how to use data to inform a change you would like to make within your business or organisational context.

    It looks at the type of evidence you can gather to inform your proposed change, and how to evaluate data with a view to using it as part of this transformation.

    Specifically, you will learn about internal and external sources of secondary information and how to evaluate them. You will also examine how to negotiate access to different types of information in a work context.

    Finally, you will obtain hands on experience in collecting and using secondary sources of information in the context of researching and making this organisational change.

    Even though the course looks from a becoming a practitioner- researcher, there is still a lot of areas to learn from that are applicaable in the council. 

    The course will cover: 

    1. Refining your opportunity for change 

    2. Developing questions 

    3. What is secondary data? 

    4. External secondary data 

    5.The advantages and limitations of secondary data 

    6. Evaluating internal and external secondary data 

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    • FREE Intermediate Level Course: The Power of Infographics in Research Dissemination

      This course is FREE-No need to sign up

      7 hours self guided study

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      Infographics are becoming an essential tool in data representation and research communication.  

      The power of infographics in research dissemination, you will explore when and how infographics can be useful to your work.  

      You will look at some good and bad practice in making and using infographics, and will learn how to evaluate infographics that appear to be presenting research evidence. 

      The course concludes by introducing some free resources that can help you produce effective infographics of your own, and critically evaluate the infographics of others. 

      The course covers: 

      1. Getting noticed in an age of information overload 

      2. Visualising data 

      3. The power of infographics   

      4. Evaluating infographics

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