MPA 6200: Research Methods and Evaluation (Nguyen)

Crash Course has partnered with Mediawise and the Stanford History Education Group to make this 10-part series on Navigating Digital Information. 

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Examine information using the same skills and questions as fact-checkers
• Read laterally to learn more about the authority and perspective of sources
• Evaluate different types of evidence, from videos to infographics
• Understand how search engines and social media feeds work
• Break bad internet habits like impatience and passivity, and build better ones

#1 - Introduction
#2 - The Facts About Fact Checking
#3 - Check Yourself with Lateral Reading
#4 - Who Can you Trust?
#5 - Using Wikipedia
#6 - Evaluating Evidence
#7 - Evaluating Photos & Videos
#8 - Data & Infographics
#9 - Click Restraint
#10 - Social Media