Educational Technology (2)

1. Week 2
Course Title: Seminar
Course Credit Hrs.: 3 per week
Level: 3
Program: MA in Educational Technology
Term: 1st
2015
Instructors: Dr. Noora Al-Malki & Dr. Amal Alshusha
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2. Presentation Content
- Learning Outcomes
-Define Research
-What can you do with Research?
-What are the advantages of doing
Research?
-What do you have to do as a Researcher?
-Research Skills
-Research Design
-Research Structure
-Research Steps and Action Plan
-Topic Selection
-Research Proposal
-NEXT Week
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3. Learning Outcomes
Upon completing the 6-hour session in the first week, students
will be able to:
1-define research and describe the research process and
research methods.
2-describe the processes and requirements for conducting
successful research at KAU (or their college)
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4. Define Research!
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A research paper is your opinion on a
topic, informed by research you have
done. It is not a summary of others’
thoughts, a personal essay or a review or
critique.

5. Define Research!
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 Research is an activity
 Research Methods are techniques
Chapter 1 "Research Basics" from Walliman's Research Methods (pgs. 7-14)

6. What can you do with Research?
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1. Categorize
2. Describe
3. Explain
4. Evaluate
5. Compare
6. Correlate
7. Predict
8. Control
Chapter 1 "Research Basics" from Walliman's Research Methods (pgs. 7-14)

7. What are the advantages of doing
Research?
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1. Help you learn about a topic (in which you are interested).
2. Teach you to forge a mishmash of researched opinions into a
single, coherent viewpoint.
3. Teaches you the conventions of scholarly writing.
4. Equip you with skills and competences which are essential to
your academic and professional development (like time
management, etc.): It “is an exercise in logic, imagination, and
common sense”
Chapters 1 & 2 from Winkler's and Metherell's Writing The Research Paper (pgs. 3-17)

8. What do you have to do as researcher?
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1)develop professional working relationships
with your supervisor and colleagues,
2)meet deadlines,
3)communicate results using a variety of
methods.
4)Manage your research project
5)Mange motivation.
6)Observe ethics

9. Research Skills
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1) Independence
2) Critical thinking
3) Problem solving
4) Contributing as a professional
5) Initiative

10. Research Design
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Chapter 1 "Research Basics" from Walliman's Research Methods (pgs. 7-14)

11. Research Structure
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12. Research Steps
and Action Plan
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Extracted from
Winkler's and Metherell's pg. 10)

13. Topic Selection: Research Topic
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“A research topic is an interest defined
narrowly enough for you to imagine
becoming a local expert on it.”
Chapter 3 "From topics to questions" from Booth et al The Craft of Research (pgs. 40-53)

14. Topic Selection: Idea Sources
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1. Interest (listing)
2. The Library (skimming)
3. The Internet (Do Not go astray!)
4. Supervisor (suggestions)
5. Brainstorming Sessions
Chapter 3 "From topics to questions" from Booth et al The Craft of Research (pgs. 40-53)

15. Topic Selection: Topics to avoid!
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1. Broad topics
2. Single-source topics
3. Trivial topics
4. Hot topics
5. Exhausted topics
Chapters 1 & 2 from Winkler's and Metherell's Writing The Research Paper (pgs. 3-17)

16. Topic Selection: Narrow it down!
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1. Break it down
2. Ask questions
3. Mind mapping

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NEXT Week
Topic
The Framework of a Research Project cont., Research Problem, How to define
a Research Problem? Research Resources, Research Ethics, How to Handle
Quotations? Research Documentation Styles

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Have a super day….