Schedule
| Week 1 |
Topic(s): |
Introductions & Connections |
| Assignments: |
- Take some time to get to know the course site
- Select the week that you would like to moderate our discussion
- Spend time in the discussion area at lest three times this week
- Pen and post your personal statement
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| Week 2 |
Topic: |
Introduction to educational research |
| Assignments: |
- Read Chapters 1 & 2
- Review site postings
- Spend some time in the discussion area
- Moderator should lead us through the discussion for this week
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| Week 3 |
Topic: |
Summarizing Articles |
| Assignments: |
- Read Chapter 4
- Review course site postings· Summarize the Ocker & Yaverbaum article
- Moderator should lead us through the discussion for this week
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| Week 4 |
Topic(s): |
Framing the research problem, formulating the research questions |
| Assignments: |
- Read Chapters 3 – pp. 49-63 & 68
- Review course site postings
- Start working on the Tompson & Dass article
- Moderator should lead us through the discussion for this week
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| Items Due: |
Written critique 1 |
| Week 5 |
Topic: |
Theory in research language & thinking process; setting the boundaries of the study; ethics in research |
| Assignments: |
- Read Chapter 5
- Review site postings
- Moderator should lead us through the discussion for this week
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| Week 6 |
Topic: |
Qualitative research – boundary setting; ethics in research |
| Assignments: |
- Read Chapter 7
- Review course site postings
- Summarize the Calandra, et. al. article
- Moderator should lead us through the discussion for this week
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| Items Due: |
Written critique 2 |
| Week 7 |
Topic(s): |
Research design |
| Assignments: |
- Summarize the Poole article
- Read Chapter 6
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| Items Due: |
Written critique 3 |
| Week 8 |
Topic(s): |
Research design – designing questionnaires |
| Assignments: |
- Read Chapter 9
- Review online resources
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| Items Due: |
Written critique 4 |
| Week 9 |
Topic: |
Research Plans |
| Assignments: |
- Review site postings
- Post your research plans to the Discussion Board
- Moderator should lead us through the discussion for the week
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| Items Due: |
Research Plan |
| Week 10 |
Topic: |
Conducting an Interview |
| Assignments: |
- Review site postings
- Moderator should lead us through the discussion for the week
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| Week 11 |
Topic(s): |
Data Interpretation |
| Assignments: |
- Read chapter 11
- Review site postings
- Post interviews to the Discussion Board
- Moderator should lead us through the discussion for this week
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| Items Due: |
Interview with IT Professional |
| Week 12 |
Topic: |
Data Collection |
| Assignments: |
- Review online postings
- Collect articles for the literature review
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| Week 13 |
Topic: |
Literature Reviews |
| Assignments: |
- Review site postings
- Put the final touches on the literature review
- Moderator should lead us through the discussion for this week
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| Week 14 |
Topic(s): |
Next steps in the research process |
| Assignments: |
- Review site postings
- Moderator should lead us through the discussion for this week
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| Items Due: |
Literature Review |
