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Reflecting on research frameworks

In the light of the podcast and this week’s work, consider how you might revise the way in which you are making notes on studies. Do the questions from Activity 1.4 need elaborating?

Look back at Reading 1 and consider the questions that were asked in that research. Do you think they represent a dominant ‘paradigm’ for research in any particular period? Are the research questions and methods…

From the Oxford Internet Institute

Methodological innovation is vital given the changing nature of the Internet and advances in ICTs which both necessitate and facilitate the development of new techniques.

OII researchers are developing methodologies such as:

big data approaches;

the embedding of ICT s for real time observation of social phenomenon;

webmetric techniques for observing the…

Thoughts on ethical issues surrounding studying younger students in virtual worlds and online

Who?

Young people

Why?

Their use of mobile phones and networked devices

What?

Immersive Virtual Worlds and virtual inhabitants (not everyone’s cup of tea)

Informal learning settings

Ethical challenges across the full range of contexts

Suggestion

Keep ethical questions open given the changing environment.

A participatory and iterative approach (Lally et al. 2012 : 02 )

Assumption that…

Research Question and Literature Review: Asthma patient ignorance of best practice in relation to taking their prescribe drugs

Justify and explain the question for a piece of empirical research.

Offer FIVE pieces that  support then set you research on its way.

What is the proposed research about? Asthma patient ignorance of best practice in relation to taking their prescribe drugs – why they are taking the drugs, how they work, when they should take them, how and how often … What is it trying to find out or achieve?…

What research questions are being addressed? What is the sector and setting? (e.g. school, higher education, training, informal learning) What theories, concepts and key terms are being used? What methods of data collection and analysis are used? (e.g. the number of participants; the type of technologies; the use of interviews, surveys, observation, etc.) What did this research find out? What are…

Why most published research findings are false

Why most published research findings are false

REFERENCE

Ioannidis, J A 2005, ‘Why Most Published Research Findings Are False’, Plos Medicine, 2, 8, pp. 696-701, Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost, viewed 12 February 2013.

Using Computer-based Text Analysis to Integrate Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Research on Collaborative Learning (1997) Wegerif and Mercer.

Primary Questions

What research questions are being addressed?

The incorporation of computer-based methods into the study of talk offers a way of combining the strengths of quantitative and qualitative methods of discourse analysis while overcoming some of their main weaknesses. (Wegerif and Mercer.  1997. p. 271)

What contribution can computer-based text analysis make to the study of…

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a Virtual Classroom with post-secondary school students starting or already studying sociology compared to a traditional classroom?

Is there an opportunity to increase access?

They’re testing the water, so seeing what would happen.

What is the sector and setting? (e.g. school, higher education, training, informal learning)

Sociology in undergraduate introductory and undergraduate upper levels at two very different and contrasting institutions Upsala College and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

Upsala was small…