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AERA has announced a new virtual research learning series featuring nine courses on a broad range of topics: https://www.aera.net/Professional-Opportunities-Funding/AERA-Virtual-Research-Learning-Series2020.

The courses, taught by leading experts, are appropriate for graduate students, early career scholars, and other researchers who seek to increase their knowledge and enhance research skills. To increase access, these four-hour courses are being offered live and on-demand for $35 each. The courses run May through September, with the first course offered on May 19. All courses will include interaction, active discussion, and Q&A with participants.

Courses include:

RL-1   What Would it Take to Change Your Inference? Quantifying the Discourse about Causal Inferences
in the Social Sciences

Tuesday, May 19, 2020
INSTRUCTOR
Kenneth Frank, Michigan State University
RL-2   How to Get Published: Guidance from Emerging
and Established Scholars

Thursday, May 21, 2020
INSTRUCTORS
Patricia A. Alexander, University of Maryland,
College Park
 (course director)
Yuting Sun, University of Maryland, College Park
Anisha Singh, University of Maryland, College Park
Jannah Fusenig, University of Maryland, College Park
Eric Schoute, University of Maryland, College Park
DeLeon Gray, Michigan State University;
North Carolina State University

Matthew McCrudden, Pennsylvania State University
Panayiota Kendeou,University of Minnesota
Jeffrey R. Harring, University of Maryland, College Park
Diane Schallert, University of Texas, Austin
Sofie Loyens, University College Roosevelt
Jeffrey A. Greene, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
RL-3   Sharing Your Research with the World
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
INSTRUCTOR
Jenny Grant Rankin,U.S. Department of State
(Fulbright Specialist Program) and Mensa
RL-4   Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Thursday, June 4, 2020
INSTRUCTORS
Terri D. Pigott, Georgia State University (course director)
Amy L. Dent, University of California – Irvine
Joshua R. Polanin, American Institutes for Research
Joseph Taylor, UCCS
RL-5   The Future is Here: Analyzing NAEP
Process Data Using R

Wednesday, June 10, 2020
INSTRUCTORS
Emmanuel Sikali, U.S. Department of Education
(course co-director)
Ruhan Circi, American Institutes for Research
Fusun Sahin, American Institutes for Research
Xiaying Zheng, American Institutes for Research
Juanita Hicks, American Institutes for Research
Soo Youn Lee, American Institutes for Research
Tiago A. Caliço, American Institutes for Research
RL-6   How to Write About Qualitative Research
Thursday, August 6, 2020
INSTRUCTOR
Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower,
University of North Dakota
RL-7   Empowerment Evaluation
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
INSTRUCTOR
David M. Fetterman, Fetterman and Associates
RL-8   Using Factor Analysis for Survey
Design and Validation

Tuesday, September 1, 2020
INSTRUCTORS
Katherine Picho, Howard University (course director)
Marie Plaisime, Howard University
RL-9   Co-Decolonizing Research Methods:
Toward Research Sustaining Indigenous
and ‘Other’ Community Engaged Ways
of Knowing

Tuesday, September 15, 2020
INSTRUCTORS
Lorri Many Rivers Johnson Santamaría, Mixteco
Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP) 
(course director)
Cristina Corrine Santamaria Graff, Indiana
University—Purdue University at Indianapolis