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Research Design for Educational Technologists

Description
  • This is a "crash course" on Research Design and Research Methodology for educational technologists and related fields (somewhat)
  • Some practical issues for the making of a Master thesis are also addressed.
  • Target audience are Master Students in Educational Technology from various backgrounds.
Status
  • For now, various parts of this tutorials are meant for class-room teaching. I just imported slides I once made. The idea is to add some stuff over time - Daniel K. Schneider
Objectives
  • Know about fundamental principles of an academic project
  • Be familiar with three major classes of research designs: (1) Theory-testing approaches, (2) Qualitative and new theory-creating research, (3) Design-science research.
  • Be aware of the fundamental elements of a Research Design: (1) Definition of a subject, (2) Research Goals and Questions, (3) Short Literature Review and selection of theoretical and conceptual frameworks, (4) Approach and Methodology: Operational Research Questions, Analysis frameworks and methodological techniques.
  • Master the basics of a few selected research methodologies, e.g. data gathering, sampling, simple quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
  • Deliverable: A draft project for a master thesis

We shall both introduce some high level/abstract concepts about academic research and "down-to-earth" techniques like fundamentals of data analysis.

Objectives of these tutorials

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The tutorials

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In principle, someone is working on it and there should be a better version in a not so distant future.
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There will be about 10-15 short tutorials. The original slides Daniel K. Schneider plans to adapt to edutech wiki can be found here: http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/methodo/edu-tech/slides/

They should be read roughly in this order.

  1. Methodology tutorial - introduction
  2. Methodology tutorial - empirical research principles
  3. Methodology tutorial - finding a research subject
  4. Methodology tutorial - the research plan
  5. Methodology tutorial - conceptual frameworks
  6. Methodology tutorial - theory-driven research designs
  7. Methodology tutorial - theory-finding research designs
  8. Methodology tutorial - design-oriented research designs
  9. ... more to come

Other resources

See: Research methodology resources