Here we introduce a collection of ethnographic video materials that can be incorporated into digital teaching.
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Digital teaching in African Studies: Blogs
Academic multi-author-blogs (MABs) for African Studies
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Digital teaching in African Studies: Open Access search engines
Special search engines for free full texts as well as open access tools Picture by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay CC Here we present special search engines for full text open access academic articles, open access tools, as well as a preprint repository for African Studies. Many articles and even entire books are available online free…
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Digital Teaching in African Studies: Overview
The Specialised Information Service for African Studies has compiled suggestions and assistance for digital teaching at universities - especially in the current switch to online teaching for the summer semester 2020.
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Digital Teaching in African Studies: Tools
A list of tools for use in digital teaching courtesy of the website Digital Teaching German Studies.
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How to avoid epistemicide
The Specialised Information Service for African Studies focuses on the acquisition of literature published on the African continent.
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Peer Review Week 2019
Reviewing for academic journals takes a considerable amount of time and effort, even though it is essentially a voluntary job. However, that does not mean that your work as a reviewer goes unseen and is unaccounted for!
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Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings
"Research partnerships between high-income and lower-income settings can be highly advantageous for both parties. Or they can lead to ethics dumping, the practice of exporting unethical research practices to lower-income settings."
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Keeping to time
Keeping to time in a conference presentation should be fairly simple but it happens in panel after panel.
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Survey on research data!
Funding institutions increasingly require scientists to make their research data accessible and reusable in research data repositories. However, the management of research data in African studies is just in its beginnings, and in part accompanied by uncertainties about how it should be implemented. Not least, in African studies, research data are particularly sensitive with regard…
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