designing research part 1 with exercise
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Exploiting Rapid Change in Technology
Enhanced Learning
… for Post Graduate Education
DESIGNING RESEARCH: Part One with Exercise
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. Steve Ballmer
More information
in… the book
More information on…
any of the DN Portals – Phase 1
Menu and Milestones
GOALS & Agenda
Tools to help
Exercise: Getting Your Design Solid
as Quickly as Possible
Overview of What is Needed
The Process
Overview of What is Needed
TOPICS:1. What is a dissertation or
thesis? Parts? Logic?2. What elements are
necessary in research design?
3. What if your degree is not a PhD or you won’t be doing a dissertation/thesis?
KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING AND YOU WILL GET THERE FASTER
People in phase one: research design, need to be prepared to visit the same material with new ideas, over and over. In fact that is the very fabric of academic life.
The Process: Iterative
The Process From Topic to Design
1. Literature2. Drives problem ideas3. Drives research ideas4. Checked against more literature – on the
research5. Drives methodological ideas6. Drive the literature7. Then you ground your ideas with a
theoretical underpinning 8. You present your design9. When it passes you are ready to start to write
Literature
Technology to help:1. Following a map through the maze2. Major and minor milestones3. Bibliographic software
REMEMBER YOU WANT TO WORK ON WHAT INTERESTS YOU –AT THE START THIS IS CRITICAL
Drives Problem IdeasREMEMBER YOU PROBABLY HAVE TO HAVE SOMETHING YOU CAN MEASURE
Technology to help:
1. Automation© on Problem
Drives Research IdeasFINDING YOUR TOPIC AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS OFTEN TAKES
MULTIPLE ITERATIONS
Technology to help:
1. Automation© on Topic2. Automation© on Research Questions
Checked against more literature –on the researchYOU ARE NOW BEGINNING TO LOOK FOR GAPS AS WELL AS HOW
OTHERS HAVE STUDIED SIMILAR / TANGENTIAL TOPICS
Technology to help:
1. Using a spreadsheet to keep track of literature
Drives methodological ideasREMEMBER THE METHODOLOGY IS DRIVEN BY:
WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW,
WHAT PARTS YOU CARE ABOUT,
HOW BIG YOUR SAMPLE WOULD BE
Technology to help:
1. Logic of Design Tool, first 3 sections
Drives the literatureNOW THE LITERATURE IS USED TO INFORM YOUR READER OF ALL THE
BITS AND PIECES THAT IMPACT YOUR METHODOLOGY SO THAT THEY
UNDERSTAND YOUR STUDY AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT
Technology to help:
1. Logic of Design Tool – last segment
Then you sort your theoretical underpinning CRITICAL FOR PHDS – MAY NOT BE SO IMPORTANT FOR OTHERS
Technology to help:
1. Search 2. Milestone search3. Getting discouraged? Opt-in for 365s
You present your designINCLUDING ALL THESE PARTS
Tools to Help & CONTENT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS
PLACES TO GO WHEN YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW YOUR QUESTIONS1. MILESTONES2. MAPS3. Phase One
menu
DO YOU KNOW WHAT QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO ASK NEXT?
PLACES TO GO WHEN YOU KNOW YOUR QUESTIONS1. SEARCH2. Drop down
milestones in middle of control panel
PLACES TO GO WHEN YOU THINK YOU’VE “Got it!”1. AUTOMATIONS2. Your advisor
STEP ONE:Know your milestones
Step Two: Follow the Map
TECHNOLOGY: 1) CONTENT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONSWHEN YOU KNOW WHAT QUESTIONS YOU WANT ANSWERED
PLACES TO SEARCH1. Milestone content2. Skill development content3. Motivational content4. Search
TECHNOLOGY:Helping you build skills
• Academic Writing
• Reading Academic Literature
• Critical Thinking/Analysis
• Organization
• Planning and Time Management
• Motivation
WHEN YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE DOING WHAT IS NEEDED
Automations© (Self Assessments)SPECIFIC TOOLS: For Specific Jobs
When you want to test yourself prior to
showing your work to others, OR you
need to understand academic
parameters, OR you want to boost
your self confidence – be on sure
ground before you move forward.
Automations© - left sidebar of your control panel
Exercise…
1. Decide where you are in the iterative process2. Go to that slide and play with the tools
described there.3. Email your results to [email protected]
or post them in skype @doctoralnet4. Go on to the next and repeat as time allows5. Come to next session on what makes designs
credible (or impressive)
What’s Up at DoctoralNet?
1. Webinars through December – Phase 1, 2, and 3, covered each month
2. Fridays – quick technology examples per topic:
Oct 7th 2. read literature & understand bias
Oct 14th 3. find your problem and statement & topic
Oct 21st 4. organize your literature review
Oct 28th 5. Increase your academic writing skills
Nov 4th 6. develop your writing plan
Nov 11th 7. what goes where tools
Nov 18th 8. keep your motivation up
Nov 25th 9. design and implementation of your data collection
3. Special pricing for year’s membership month of Oct. 50% off full year of
technology.