11/11/13

为社会科学家添加在线课程的作者。

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  • 该网络希望合作伙伴帮助其提供量身定制的培训在写作报告上
  • 自2012年以来,它提供了四个在线课程,因为这些课程便宜
  • These flexible courses have also enabled more women to take part

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[MONTREAL] AuthorAID,a network that helps scientists in developing countries publish and communicate their work, is seeking partners to help develop courses specific to social sciences.

这些将是在线课程,在最近的举动成功地在线上进行更多课程而不是面对面 - 扩大了计划的范围,同时降低了成本。

拉维·穆鲁格斯(Ravi Murugesan)说:“我们希望与某人合作,”拉维·穆鲁格斯(Ravi Murugesan)说,他为作者设计并开设了在线课程,这是由英国发展慈善机构管理的一项倡议。

为此,穆鲁格斯(Murugesan)上个月在加拿大蒙特利尔举行的2013年世界社会科学论坛会议上解释了作者援助的使命,以寻求潜在的合作伙伴。从那以后,他说:“我有一些兴趣”。

AuthorAID started in 2007, offering training workshops and intensive mentoring to help scientists in developing countries improve their skills in writing papers. It has seen some success so far — the participants in a 2009 workshop at the National University of Rwanda have gone on to publish 70 papers, several of which have won awards.

But in 2011, INASP hired Murugesan to expand its training programmes to include online courses. The idea was to find a way to make the courses cheaper to run — despite the workshops having relatively low budgets, each can still cost AuthorAID around US$10,000 — and to open them up to those unable to travel to the face-to-face workshops.

穆鲁格桑说:“我们在线课程中有来自索马里和阿富汗的人。”“我们永远不会举办现场工作坊的地方。”

他说,自2012年以来,《作者援助》开展的四个在线课程也吸引了更多的女性。“我们在工作的国家,妇女面临许多障碍,使她们无法参加面对面的研讨会,即使她们已经成为大学教授。”

例如,研讨会是由当地合作者设立的,他们还控制着入学率。Murugesan说,男人通常与各种专业网络有更好的联系,使他们能够听到有关课程的了解并支持其应用程序。他补充说,妇女也可能更不愿去另一个城市参加五天的课程。

乌干达姆巴拉拉科学技术大学的研究管理员伊迪丝·瓦基达(Edith Wakida)在今年早些时候参加了授予写作的作者援助在线课程。妇女对工作和家庭负有多重责任。有时他们想不出时间离开工作和孩子,”她说。

在线课程是正式的,但旨在在分配的五周内以学生自己的步调完成。它们包括书面作业,以及一个讨论论坛,学生和课程主持人(通常是Murugesan)可以讨论他们的工作。

Wakida说,最有吸引力的是在线课程的灵活性。她说:“每当我找到一个插槽时,我都会以自己的步调做。”它还提供了与来自世界各地的人们互动和分享经验的机会。“在面对面的研讨会中,您只会与您自己国家或大陆的人们见面。”

The course proved beneficial to Wakida. Shortly after completing it, she won a grant from AuthorAID to organise a workshop on scientific writing for staff from her university and Kampala International University. And in August she started an online master’s degree in research management run by the University of Central Florida, United States.

“AuthorAID was like a stepping stone,” she says. “It introduced me to online study and gave me the confidence to do something bigger.”