Proposal view
| Proposal Type: | Workshop |
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| Domain: | Assessment and Evaluation |
| SIG: | Assessment and Evaluation |
| Scheduling category: | Research Methodology |
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| Paper Details |
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| Title | Learning Research Methods in an Online Digital Research Community |
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| Abstract | Today’s online digital research communities are still underdeveloped. They either too simple and do not allow the learning of sufficient methodological skills or too complex: much programming experience is needed to deal with the system. Moreover, they do not provide an open actual scientific learning community. Today’s students (as well many of their professors) are much into the latest approaches of online social networking, but are lacking the methodological skills and backgrounds to perform scientific research. From all skills students acquire at university level the research methods classes are perceived to be the most tedious as well as the most boring. Knowledge from these courses is often quickly forgotten. One reason often mentioned is the lack of coherent domain specific procedural knowledge in those courses. In this workshop the teaching of research methods is demonstrated with the use of an online digital research environment called ´eXamine´. The program eXamine creates an online scientific research community where students and professional scientific researchers are cooperatively involved in the scientific research process. The program allows the flexible use of several data collection procedures, a variety of research tasks and questionnaires construction and a variety of the most important general research designs. It also incorporates several levels of control for the researcher which allows flexible use both for lab as well as for fields studies. In this way domain specific procedural knowledge can be acquired alongside generic research methods skills. The programme aims to speed up data collection, make the learning process of research methods easier and more interesting. It also claims a higher transfer of knowledge. The results of an user evaluation study are presented and discussed. The workshop discusses the use of this and other multi media types for the teaching of research methods skills. |
| Summary | Today’s online digital research communities are still underdeveloped. They either too simple and do not allow the learning of sufficient methodological skills or too complex: much programming experience is needed to deal with the system. Moreover, they do not provide an open actual scientific learning community. Today’s students (as well many of their professors) are much into the latest approaches of online social networking, but are lacking the methodological skills and backgrounds to perform scientific research. From all skills students acquire at university level the research methods classes are perceived to be the most tedious as well as the most boring. Knowledge from these courses is often quickly forgotten. One reason often mentioned is the lack of coherent domain specific procedural knowledge in those courses. In this workshop the teaching of research methods is demonstrated with the use of an online digital research environment called ´eXamine´. The program eXamine creates an online scientific research community where students and professional scientific researchers are cooperatively involved in the scientific research process. The program allows the flexible use of several data collection procedures, a variety of research tasks and questionnaires construction and a variety of the most important general research designs. It also incorporates several levels of control for the researcher which allows flexible use both for lab as well as for fields studies. In this way domain specific procedural knowledge can be acquired alongside generic research methods skills. The programme aims to speed up data collection, make the learning process of research methods easier and more interesting. It also claims a higher transfer of knowledge. The results of an user evaluation study are presented and discussed. The workshop discusses the use of this and other multi media types for the teaching of research methods skills.Today’s online digital research communities are still underdeveloped. They either too simple and do not allow the learning of sufficient methodological skills or too complex: much programming experience is needed to deal with the system. Moreover, they do not provide an open actual scientific learning community. Today’s students (as well many of their professors) are much into the latest approaches of online social networking, but are lacking the methodological skills and backgrounds to perform scientific research. From all skills students acquire at university level the research methods classes are perceived to be the most tedious as well as the most boring. Knowledge from these courses is often quickly forgotten. One reason often mentioned is the lack of coherent domain specific procedural knowledge in those courses. In this workshop the teaching of research methods is demonstrated with the use of an online digital research environment called ´eXamine´. The program eXamine creates an online scientific research community where students and professional scientific researchers are cooperatively involved in the scientific research process. The program allows the flexible use of several data collection procedures, a variety of research tasks and questionnaires construction and a variety of the most important general research designs. It also incorporates several levels of control for the researcher which allows flexible use both for lab as well as for fields studies. In this way domain specific procedural knowledge can be acquired alongside generic research methods skills. The programme aims to speed up data collection, make the learning process of research methods easier and more interesting. It also claims a higher transfer of knowledge. The results of an user evaluation study are presented and discussed. The workshop discusses the use of this and other multi media types for the teaching of research methods skills.Today’s online digital research communities are still underdeveloped. They either too simple and do not allow the learning of sufficient methodological skills or too complex: much programming experience is needed to deal with the system. Moreover, they do not provide an open actual scientific learning community. Today’s students (as well many of their professors) are much into the latest approaches of online social networking, but are lacking the methodological skills and backgrounds to perform scientific research. From all skills students acquire at university level the research methods classes are perceived to be the most tedious as well as the most boring. Knowledge from these courses is often quickly forgotten. One reason often mentioned is the lack of coherent domain specific procedural knowledge in those courses. In this workshop the teaching of research methods is demonstrated with the use of an online digital research environment called ´eXamine´. The program eXamine creates an online scientific research community where students and professional scientific researchers are cooperatively involved in the scientific research process. The program allows the flexible use of several data collection procedures, a variety of research tasks and questionnaires construction and a variety of the most important general research designs. It also incorporates several levels of control for the researcher which allows flexible use both for lab as well as for fields studies. In this way domain specific procedural knowledge can be acquired alongside generic research methods skills. The programme aims to speed up data collection, make the learning process of research methods easier and more interesting. It also claims a higher transfer of knowledge. The results of an user evaluation study are presented and discussed. The workshop discusses the use of this and other multi media types for the teaching of research methods skills. |
| Keywords | Organization of educational research Research cooperation frameworks Training of young researchers |
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| Authors | ||||||
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| Name | Surname | Institution | Country | EARLI Number | Presenting | |
| Peter | Roelofsma | eXamine BV | Netherlands | PHMP.Roelofsma@fsw.vu.nl | * | |
| Arjan | Veenman | eXamine BV | Netherlands | a.veenman@asquare.nl | ||
