The ECTEL Doctoral Consortium (DC) is one of the prime events for getting valuable feedback on progressing with a research project in technology-enhanced learning (TEL). The ECTEL DC has strict requirements for submissions. The present slides deal answering critical questions that help to clarify and structure one's own ideas and challenges for a successful submission to the ECTEL DC. This includes identifying experts who can provide input to the specific questions and challenges of a candidate. This deck covers part two of a two part workshop for preparing submissions to the ECTEL 2018 Doctoral Consortium at the EATEL Summer School 2018 in Durres, Albania. It focuses on identifying experts in the field that work on the same topic.

1. Getting Ready for the
EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium
Part 2
Dr. Christian Glahn

2. • A clear formulation of the research
question.
• An identification of the significant problems
in the field of research within the TEL
domain.
• An outline of the current knowledge of the
problem domain, as well as the state of
existing solutions.
• A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the
proposed approach and the results achieved
so far.
• A sketch of the applied research
methodology.
• A description of the Ph.D. project's
contribution to the problem solution in the
TEL domain.
• A discussion of how the suggested solution
is different, new, or better as compared to
existing approaches to the problem.
• A statement of the particular issues,
problems, or challenges in your
dissertation; research areas that you want
to discuss; types of feedback that might
be particularly useful,
• A list of members of the ECTEL 2018
Program Committee who you think would
be able to provide a particularly useful
perspective or feedback on your work,
• A letter of recommendation from your
dissertation supervisor/advisor. It must
include an assessment of the current
status of your work, and an expected date
for dissertation completion.
max. 6 pages 1 page form

3. • A clear formulation of the research
question.
• An identification of the significant problems
in the field of research within the TEL
domain.
• An outline of the current knowledge of the
problem domain, as well as the state of
existing solutions.
• A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the
proposed approach and the results achieved
so far.
• A sketch of the applied research
methodology.
• A description of the Ph.D. project's
contribution to the problem solution in the
TEL domain.
• A discussion of how the suggested solution
is different, new, or better as compared to
existing approaches to the problem.
• A statement of the particular issues,
problems, or challenges in your
dissertation; research areas that you want
to discuss; types of feedback that might
be particularly useful,
• A list of members of the ECTEL 2018
Program Committee who you think would
be able to provide a particularly useful
perspective or feedback on your work,
• A letter of recommendation from your
dissertation supervisor/advisor. It must
include an assessment of the current
status of your work, and an expected date
for dissertation completion.
Today

4. Homework for today
What are your issues?
What feedback you do not get from your supervisor or promotor?
Where are you stuck or feel blocked in your research?
- Methods
- Data
- Studies
- Reviewers
- Participants
- Follow-up research

5. Important!
Condense your key question to the experts
into a single statement!
… fit it into max. 2 lines
... if you need more lines make a reference to your paper

6. Raising questions is easy, but …
How to identify the experts to ask?
We are looking for experts we are likely to meet at ECTEL

7. The ECTEL proceedings are our friend
https://link.springer.com/conference/ectel
We can search and browse all 795 EC-TEL papers since 2006!

8. use your keywords
or browse the proceedings

9. your keyword
the experts
ECTEL Topic and year

10. Now you just need to remind your supervisor
to confirm your project ;-)