Upcoming courses

Are statistical testing and analyses that are supposed to be a part of your research a struggle for you? In this course, some common statistical tests will be presented. What are they for and what is the difference between them? How do you carry them out with the help of SPSS and how do you interpret the results? Or do you simply need to read and understand papers where statistics is used? What does it mean i.e. when p = 0,05? In this course, you will get the answer.

This course will discuss some of your alternatives. However, it will naturally not replace the contact with a statistician in more difficult cases.

SPSS is a license-based software. Consequently, you need to be in touch with the ICT-service before you can download and authorize the application to your computer!

*This course is cancelled and will be arranged an other time due to a case of illness*

This is a crash course in user centered design in Moodle. The topics are

• What is User Centered Design?
• Why is User Centered Design important?
• How does it work and how can I follow the principles of User Centered Design to make my Moodle courses more user friendly?

Bring your own device (BYOD)!

In this course you will get an introduction to the reference management tool RefWorks. With RefWorks you can organize and keep track of your sources and make bibliographies in different styles (APA, Harvard etc). RefWorks is available for students and researchers at Vaasa University, Åbo Akademi University and Hanken.

Please prepare for the course by creating a RefWorks account (refworks.proquest.com> Create account. Use your university’s e-mail address.)

This is not a computer class so please bring your own computer!

Give your Moodle course a makeover that helps it stand out. Make your Moodle pages easier to navigate by adding labels, pages and tables. Make them nicer with colors, pictures, banners and thumbnails that work as links.

Bring your own device! (BYOD)

Do you get too many results when searching? Or too few results?

Are you sure you are looking for the information in the right place?

What scientific databases can I access from my office?

From Tritonia? At home?

Get answers to these questions and make your searches more efficient with better technique, smart strategies and more knowledge of scientific databases and open access materials in this course. This short course might be a timesaver.

Are you doing research interviews or videotaping sessions? Are you wondering about how to transcribe them? Which tools that are available? Perhaps your research material consists of old, hardly legible handwritten texts, which also need to be transcribed?

During the course, the transcription programmes EXMARaLDA (for audio files), ELAN (for video recordings combined with an audio file) and Transkribus (for text files) will be introduced. These programmes are free to use but require that you install them on your computer. In addition, the possibilities of transcription by automatic speech and text recognition will be discussed.

If possible, bring your own computer to the course and install the programme of your choice beforehand. You can access the programmes online:

http://exmaralda.org/en/ (EXMARaLDA),

https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/ (ELAN)

https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/ (Transkribus).

Advance your professional visibility and your access to the work of your peers with Academia.edu and ResearchGate!

What is green open access and how do you make your papers available to a wider public? How do you stay updated on new papers on the topics you are interested in? In this course, the academic research platforms Academia.edu and ResearchGate are presented. What kind of work can be uploaded and what things do you need to consider when doing it? During the course you will be able to create an account on one of the two platforms. If you want to upload a paper, please bring it on a memory stick.

This is not a computer class so please, bring your own device!

Does your research have a geographical aspect? Do you need to include maps and geographical data in your papers and presentations? A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage and present spatial or geographic data. In QGIS, you can import maps free of charge from the National Land Survey of Finland or the world wide Google street maps. You can add your own data and export the map as a PDF. In a lecture, you can also zoom in and out of your map if needed, provided that QGIS is installed on the computer you use.

The software QGIS is free to use but must be installed on your computer. Please, choose the most updated version 3.4.2 Madeira.

Making Poster Presentations

Working practically with planning and making research posters, for use at international Scientific Conferences.

- Ideas for the poster design process: attractive functional layout, texts, tables, graphs, logotypes etc., highlighting the most important parts from a study.

- Working with "ready to use" templates, and learning to set up own format

Bring Your own research materials (tables, figures, pictures etc.), if possible.

Zoom is a programme for distance meetings and teaching. Zoom will replace Adobe Connect at the University of Vaasa from autumn 2018. During the course, you will learn how to start using Zoom and you will get familiar with the basic functions and how to use Zoom for teaching and meetings. With Zoom you can share content (for example a PowerPoint presentation), record meetings or lectures on your own computer or to a cloud service, discuss together with all participants or in small groups, and share links and discuss in the chat. 

Bring your laptop or mobile device and a headset with you if possible (BOYD=Bring Your Own Device). Install Zoom on your work computer before the course through Software Center (employees at the University of Vaasa). Instructions in English: https://it.uwasa.fi/guides/en/all/How+to+Use+Zoom. From the link above, you can also find instructions for installing the program on your private computer or if you are an employee of some other organization.

You can participate only on site in Tritonia K320

A staggering amount of online data is generated, produced and shared online on a daily basis and we take the global connectivity almost for granted. However, can we take our online safety for granted to the same extent? The objectives of the course Cyber Security - Absolute Basics and How You Are Supposed to Deal with Threats are to: 1) increase critical awareness of the current state of internet with regard to cyber security and internet privacy and 2) give overview of the most essential methods of keeping your data safe from external threats.

In this course you learn how to write a script for a video lecture. Online we consume teaching material in a different way than in classrooms. In this course we focus on adapting existing lecture material for online video format to ensure quality learning. The course starts with a brief lecture on the structure and set up of online videos, after which we will workshop around your own lectures to modify them into video scripts. The presentation is in English but during the workshop we will work on your script in your own language (fin/swe/eng).

This course is part of a Workshop Series on Video in Teaching. You can attend the workshops separately.