The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services produced a bunch of great videos to explain topics related to human subject research . The videos were created as part of a broader outreach effort intent on  explaining the research process to research participants .  I think they would fit right into a Research Methods course. Topics include: IRBs: Research design: There is also a specific video explaining social science research: All of the videos (along with handouts) are available here . All videos have closed-captions as well as Spanish versions

Malaika Handa , Amber Thomas , and Jan Diehn created a beautiful, interactive website, Colorism in High Fashion . It used machine learning to investigate "colorism" at Vogue magazine. Specifically, it delves into the differences, over time, in cover model color but also how lighting and photoshopping can change the color of the same woman's skin, depending on the photo. There are soooo many ways to use this in class, ranging from machine learning, how machine learning can refine old psychology methodology, to variability and within/between-group differences. Read on: 1. I'm a social psychologist. Most of us who teach social psychology have encountered research that uses magazine cover models as a proxy for what our culture emphasizes and values ( 1 , 2 , 3 ). Here, Malaika Handa, Amber Thomas, and Jan Diehn apply this methodology to Vogue magazine covers. And they take this methodology into the age of machine learning by using k-means cluster and pixels to deter...

Josh Katz and Kevin Quealy p ut together a cool interactive website to help users better understand their NYC commute . With the creation of this website, they also are helping statistics instructors illustrate a number of basic statistics lessons. To use the website, select two stations... The website returns a bee swarm plot, where each dot represents one day's commuting time over a 16-month sample.   So, handy for NYC commuters, but also statistics instructors. How to use in class: 1. Conceptual demonstration of the sampling distribution of the sample mean . To be clear, each dot doesn't represent the mean of a sample. However, I think this still does a good job of showing how much variability exists for commute time on a given day. The commute can vary wildly depending on the day when the sample was collected, but every data point is accurate.  2. Variability . Here, students can see the variability in commuting time. I think this example is e...