Word Cloud
Word Cloud with Wordle Here’s a word cloud of my blog using the top 150 words so far since the 1st May 2010, using Wordle. It will be interesting to see my blog in a word cloud to see what themes emerge, as I progress through my research.
The approach of hypothesis Guided to coding data
Describing the approach of hypothesis Guided to coding data The coding is grounded in a set of views to prove a hypothesis eg. A researcher may have the view that conventional models of what a graduate is supposed to get out of his or her studies and the question of whether university-level learning is about
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Encryption
Ensuring your data is encrypted for research I’ve been chatting with a brilliant IT Consultant (please email me if you’d like the contact details) today who has been advising me on how I can ensure my data is secure during my research and to ensure confidentiality of personal data. The information gathered will be subject
The approach of representational to coding data
Describing The approach of representational to coding data The aim here is to represent the surface content fairly so you often go for key words in what has been said as the core concepts in the coding categories. A representational code list is produced. Representational approach to coding data just tries to summarise the manifest
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The British Library
The British Library contains every book published in the UK. OU Students can obtain a 5 year free pass for the British Library reading rooms at Saint Pancras in London if they produce documentary proof of the course they are studying. The Reader Admissions Ofrfice The British Library 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB 020
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Conversations in Cyberspace: A study of online learning
A Critical Evaluation of : Browne, E. (2003) Conversations in Cyberspace: A study of online learning. Online Learning, 18(3), 245 – 259 Browne (2003) provides a clear aim for the research in examining interaction between lecturers and learners studying an online Masters Degree in Education. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods are utilised in the
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Thoughts on Analysis
” Knight (2002, p. 188) provides a set of tactics for generating meanings from collected data. Those which are particularly relevant for my research are: Need to keep thinking about the patterns and themes Try to develop stories that draw themes together, offer explanations and give a feeling of understnading Throughout the literature review, I
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Thoughts on policy
It may be more accurate to think of accessible learning as a strategy rather than as a set of policies and that the role of the government is to create the conditions for a learning society. I believe in the notion of strategies to promote learning through work; and technology can help to achieve this.
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Friendship
I was reading the Ouch pages on BBC today and reading some of the student diaries. What I found interesting about the case studies was the importance of friendship, which I think is something that perhaps may be overlooked. When students are asked about the things that are important in their experience of education one
Thinking about your audience
‘It’s a PhD, not a Nobel Prize’: how experienced examiners assess research theses by Gerry Mullins and Margaret Kiley Something to read over your morning coffee today. I thought this was a very helpful article. Click the image to view the article.
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