Writing the winning thesis or dissertation, a step by step guide. Slides have been prepared from the book of the same name authored by Randy L. Joyner, William A. Rouse and Allan A. Glatthorn.
Writing the winning thesis or dissertation, a step by step guide. Slides have been prepared from the book of the same name authored by Randy L. Joyner, William A. Rouse and Allan A. Glatthorn.
Remedy for the Challenge of Continuous Assessment in Large ClassesDilip Barad
This is the presentation for the National Symposium at Charotar University of Science and Technology
CHARUSAT
Indukaka Ipcowala Institute of Management (I2IM)
on
Technology in ELT
Challenges and Remedies on 23 November, 2013.
It discusses importance of ICT in testing and evaluaton / assessment. It referes to Ken Robinson and Sugata Mitra as well as applications like Moodle, ProProfs, Zoho Quiz etc and then narrows down on Google Docs / forms for online testing and Flubaroo script for auto grading. In live demo, it demonstrates benefits of Google Forms and Flubaroo for online testing and continuous assessment.
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Professor Chris Brewster, Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK presented this seminar "International and Collaborative Research" at the Whitaker Institute on 20th June 2012.
This presentation accompanies a Malayalam video on writing literature reviews in Social Sciences.
The video can be found at https://www.youtube.com/c/DrChinchuC
BROWN BAG TALK WITH CHAOQUN NI- TRANSFORMATIVE INTERACTIONS IN THE SCIENTIFIC...Micah Altman
This talk, is part of the MIT Program on Information Science brown bag series (http://informatics.mit.edu)
A competitive scientific workforce is essential for the health and well-being of a society. However, U.S. dominance in the global knowledge economy has been challenged in recent years: the U.S. is outspent by China (in terms of R&D funding) and out-produced by the EU (in terms of doctoral graduates and scientific publications). Furthermore, gender inequalities persist, with men producing more scientific articles than women in every state.
From Dr. Ni, "I argue that, for a country to be scientifically competitive, it must maximize its human intellectual capital-base and support this workforce equitably and efficiently. I propose here a large-scale and heterogeneous analysis of the sociality, equality, and dynamicity of the scientific workforce through novel computational models for understanding and predicting the career trajectory of scientists based on their transformative interactions, gender, and levels of funding. This analysis will be able to isolate factors that contribute to the health and well-being of the scientific workforce. The computational models will quantify the impact of those transformative events and interactions and provide models to predict the career trajectory of scientists based on their gender, the size and position of the social network, and other demographic factors."
Chaoqun Ni got her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in E-Commerce and Information System from Wuhan University, and Doctoral Degree in Information Science from Indiana University in Bloomington.
Chaoqun Ni's research has appeared in a variety of computer science, informatics, library, and scientific publications, including Nature, Scientometrics, Journal of Association for Information Science and Technology, and Simmons SLIS' Library and Information Science Research. In addition to receiving a Dean's Fellowship from the Department of Information & Library Science at Indiana University Bloomington, Ni received the Association for Information Science and Technology's New Leader Award in 2011, and the Association for Library and Information Science Education Doctoral Student Award in 2014.
The aim of this talk is to discusses some of the ethical issues that can arise during scientific publication and the peer review process and discusses their implications. The presentation covers several issue including the scientific publication ethics, misconduct, integrity of the research, authorship and peer review ethics as well as Committee on publication Ethics (COPE) ,
The National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (https://www.nsfgrfp.org) offers fellowships to new and incoming graduate students in the sciences. The award is very prestigious and rather competitive. However, if you are eligible (see the solicitation) it is completely worth it to apply.
This introduction to the NSF-GRFP will teach you more about the fellowship, help you decide when to apply, and give you tips on crafting a winning application.
2015 was a busy year for the academic publishing world, with many trend-setting practices, significant discoveries, and innovations. Editage Insights spoke to several experts from the publishing industry to know their thoughts about these trends. Here, we bring you extracts of the knowledge they shared to help you get first-hand advice on academic publication.
Remedy for the Challenge of Continuous Assessment in Large ClassesDilip Barad
This is the presentation for the National Symposium at Charotar University of Science and Technology
CHARUSAT
Indukaka Ipcowala Institute of Management (I2IM)
on
Technology in ELT
Challenges and Remedies on 23 November, 2013.
It discusses importance of ICT in testing and evaluaton / assessment. It referes to Ken Robinson and Sugata Mitra as well as applications like Moodle, ProProfs, Zoho Quiz etc and then narrows down on Google Docs / forms for online testing and Flubaroo script for auto grading. In live demo, it demonstrates benefits of Google Forms and Flubaroo for online testing and continuous assessment.
2012.06.20 International and Collaborative ResearchNUI Galway
Professor Chris Brewster, Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK presented this seminar "International and Collaborative Research" at the Whitaker Institute on 20th June 2012.
This presentation accompanies a Malayalam video on writing literature reviews in Social Sciences.
The video can be found at https://www.youtube.com/c/DrChinchuC
BROWN BAG TALK WITH CHAOQUN NI- TRANSFORMATIVE INTERACTIONS IN THE SCIENTIFIC...Micah Altman
This talk, is part of the MIT Program on Information Science brown bag series (http://informatics.mit.edu)
A competitive scientific workforce is essential for the health and well-being of a society. However, U.S. dominance in the global knowledge economy has been challenged in recent years: the U.S. is outspent by China (in terms of R&D funding) and out-produced by the EU (in terms of doctoral graduates and scientific publications). Furthermore, gender inequalities persist, with men producing more scientific articles than women in every state.
From Dr. Ni, "I argue that, for a country to be scientifically competitive, it must maximize its human intellectual capital-base and support this workforce equitably and efficiently. I propose here a large-scale and heterogeneous analysis of the sociality, equality, and dynamicity of the scientific workforce through novel computational models for understanding and predicting the career trajectory of scientists based on their transformative interactions, gender, and levels of funding. This analysis will be able to isolate factors that contribute to the health and well-being of the scientific workforce. The computational models will quantify the impact of those transformative events and interactions and provide models to predict the career trajectory of scientists based on their gender, the size and position of the social network, and other demographic factors."
Chaoqun Ni got her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in E-Commerce and Information System from Wuhan University, and Doctoral Degree in Information Science from Indiana University in Bloomington.
Chaoqun Ni's research has appeared in a variety of computer science, informatics, library, and scientific publications, including Nature, Scientometrics, Journal of Association for Information Science and Technology, and Simmons SLIS' Library and Information Science Research. In addition to receiving a Dean's Fellowship from the Department of Information & Library Science at Indiana University Bloomington, Ni received the Association for Information Science and Technology's New Leader Award in 2011, and the Association for Library and Information Science Education Doctoral Student Award in 2014.
The aim of this talk is to discusses some of the ethical issues that can arise during scientific publication and the peer review process and discusses their implications. The presentation covers several issue including the scientific publication ethics, misconduct, integrity of the research, authorship and peer review ethics as well as Committee on publication Ethics (COPE) ,
The National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (https://www.nsfgrfp.org) offers fellowships to new and incoming graduate students in the sciences. The award is very prestigious and rather competitive. However, if you are eligible (see the solicitation) it is completely worth it to apply.
This introduction to the NSF-GRFP will teach you more about the fellowship, help you decide when to apply, and give you tips on crafting a winning application.
2015 was a busy year for the academic publishing world, with many trend-setting practices, significant discoveries, and innovations. Editage Insights spoke to several experts from the publishing industry to know their thoughts about these trends. Here, we bring you extracts of the knowledge they shared to help you get first-hand advice on academic publication.
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Slides from a 7-minute talk which I gave as part of a panel discussion on research evaluation at #COASP. If research is published in smaller units, it will be much easier to determine what early career researchers have precisely accomplished in their careers.
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Emerging scholars are often unprepared to navigate the changing landscape of scholarly publishing. Learn about author's rights and the importance of strategic publishing, including techniques to identify unethical scholarly publishers.
TIRF Board member, Jun Liu (Professor and Head of the English Department, University of Arizona), addresses the current status of English and predicts future trends in China. Issues include promoting research and best practices to improve the use of English in the global knowledge economy.
As a researcher, you are expected to start publishing early in your career. But original research could take years to complete! This does not mean you that you cannot publish a paper until you complete your research. You can disseminate your research in many other ways. These slides will help you learn more about the different types of scholarly literature so that you are able to choose the most suitable format for publishing your study.
Presentation on 7 March 2014 as part of the University of South Africa's Research & Innovation week. The theme for the session was "Trust me. I'm a scientist." I shared some of the ethical issues and dilemmas in publishing educational research from the perspective of an editor.
There are both challenges and opportunities in the existing scenario characterized by heavy emphasis on collaboration, digitization and onset of social media. One needs to be connected with theme, institution, industry and society. The web 2.0 technologies make it possible for a researcher to be a connected one.
This powerpoint presentation will probably help not just the students but also the teachers to be resourceful, engage and productive in terms of teaching and learning.
Objectives:
1. Discuss why, when, what, where and how to publish.
2. Understand what makes a paper publishable.
3. Explore the journals market.
4. Introduce Library Trends as a source of journal publishing in the library and information field, and describe how it is produced.
Moderators :
Clara M. Chu
• Director and Mortenson Distinguished Professor, Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Coeditor-in-Chief of Library Trends and Inaugural Coeditor of the ‘International Insights’ column of College & Research Libraries News
• Expert in developing appropriate solutions to deliver equitable and relevant library services in culturally diverse and dynamic libraries
• Studies the information needs of culturally diverse communities in a globalized and technological society
• Co-developing an institute on Artificial Intelligence and libraries
Jaya Raju
Professor and Head of the Department of Knowledge and Information Stewardship, Humanities Faculty, University of Cape Town
• Specialist researcher and author in library and information science (LIS) education and its epistemological implications for the discipline and for professional practice
• Teaches research methodology and the broader philosophical, ontological and epistemological issues that impact the research process
• Coeditor-in-Chief of Library Trends and Inaugural Coeditor of the ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) Book Series on LIS education and research
• Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science from 2012 to 2018
Targeted Audience:
• Staff in any type of library and information center
• Library and information science students, researchers and educators
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The major research project
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The major research project involves several key elements:
Research Proposal: It begins with the formulation of a research proposal that outlines the research objectives, questions, methodology, and expected outcomes. The proposal serves as a roadmap for the project, guiding the researcher throughout the research process.
Literature Review: A comprehensive review of existing literature related to the research topic is conducted. This involves identifying and analyzing relevant scholarly articles, books, and other sources to gain an understanding of the current state of knowledge and identify research gaps.
Research Methodology: The research methodology describes the approach and techniques used to collect and analyze data. It includes selecting appropriate research methods, such as surveys, interviews, experiments, or data analysis, and detailing the procedures for data collection, sampling, and data analysis.
The process of research starts with the identification of a research problem.How can we formulate a research problem? From wheredo we get research problem? The slide explains the starting point of research journey....
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• Data collection
• Verify data
• Analyzing and interpreting the data
• Reporting and evaluating research
• Communicating the research findings and, possibly, recommendations
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Presentation at the 25th Annual Conference of the South African Association for Institutional Research (SAAIR), 12-15 November, 2018, Durban University of Technology (DUT), Durban, South Africa
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Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
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http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
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The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
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students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
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Academic publishing: A minefield or Garden of Eden? A researcher and editor's perspective
1. Academic publishing: A
minefield or the Garden of Eden?
A researcher and
editor’s perspective
By Paul Prinsloo,
Research Professor in
Open Distance
Learning (ODL) &
Editor: Progressio,
South African Journal
for Open and Distance
Learning Practice
Presentation to the Young
Academics Programme,
Unisa
30 July 2014
2. Kate Bowles –
Life turns to beige…
Kate Bowles – On, on, on
Richard Hall –
On academic labor and performance
Claire Shaw and Lucy Ward
Dark thoughts: why mental illness is
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3. Overview of the presentation
• Some disclaimers
• Understanding the field of being a researcher and
publishing research (1), (2)
• Factors shaping being a researcher and publishing
research
• Some paradoxes, current trends and issues
• What does an editor want…?
• Some dos and some donts
• (In)conclusion
4. Some disclaimers
• I cannot and don’t speak on behalf of all researchers or editors
• I provide some personal thoughts regarding being a
researcher (predominantly in the field of education) and as
Editor of Progressio, South African Journal for Open and
Distance Learning Practice
• All the images used in this presentation have been sourced
from Google labelled for non-commercial reuse. The links are
provided at the end of the presentation
• This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Lic
5. Understanding the field of being a
researcher and publishing research
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• Boundaried site
• Players have set/
predetermined
positions
• Rules are
predetermined
• Players have different
skills
• What players can do
is determined by their
position on the
field/rules
• The physical condition
of the field impacts
play
6. The “field” is not a benign, pastoral space, but rather le champ – a battle
field, where players have set positions, predetermined paces, specific rules
which novice players must learn together with basic skills (Thompson,
2012).
“What players can do, and where they can go during the game, depends
on their field position. The actual physical condition of the field (whether it
is wet, dry, well grassed or full of potholes), also has an effect on what
players can do and this how the game is played” (Thompson, 2012, p. 66).
Understanding the field of being a
researcher and publishing research (2)
[(habitus)(capital)] + field = practice/agency
(Maton, 2012, p. 50)
7. My dispositions - how
my past and present
(and my understanding
thereof) shaped and
still shape me
The capital that I
have acquired in the
process (or not)
The field – the
context in which I find
myself in. This is not a
neutral space, but is,
itself, shaped by
various structures,
and agencies of
individuals and
collectivesMy practice/agency and my
understanding thereof…
We are not “pre-programmed automatons acting out the
implications of our upbringings” (Maton, 2012, p. 50).
Constrained agency in research…
8. “…where we are in life in any one moment [is]… the result of
numberless events in the past that shaped our path” (Maton,
2012, p. 51).
Research agency is understanding that the choices we have in
any particular moment and time in a specific context, are shaped
by the positions we have in that particular social field at that
moment in time, and the choices we (can) make…
Complicating matters is the fact that the context we find ourselves
in (at that particular moment in time), has itself been shaped by
and is shaped by other contexts, individuals in an evolving power
play.
Being and doing research…
9. F
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Tenacity Progression Positive experience
THE (SUCCESS OF THE )
RESEARCH PROCESS
Multiple, mutually
constitutive interactions
between researchers,
institutional context and
disciplinary contexts
Curiosity
Scan the
environment
Plan &
formulate
Execute
& collect
Analyse
&
interpret
Write
up
Submit
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SHAPING CONDITIONS: (predictable as well as uncertain)
BEING AND BECOMING A
RESEARCHERIDENTITY,
ATTRIBUTES, HABITUS
TRANSFORMED RESEARCHER IDENTITY & ATTRIBUTES
Habitus, dispositions, identity, skills
& attributes
Inter & intra-
personal
domains
Modalities:
• Attribution
• Locus of control
• Self-efficacy
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THE FIELD: DISCIPLINARY
CONTEXT, INSTITUTIONAL
CONTEXT, RESEARCH
REGIMES & CRITERIA
CHANGES IN PROCESSES, VALUES, REGIMES, & CRITERIA
Institutional policy and support
Disciplinary context
Rankings, journal foci, regimes, &
criteria
Regimes
Institutional
Disciplinary
Journal
Modalities:
• Attribution
• Locus of control
• Self-efficacy
SHAPING CONDITIONS: (predictable as well as uncertain)
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distance learning at the University of South Africa. Distance Education, 32(2): 177—19.
10. Factors shaping being a researcher and
publishing research
Macro context
shaping research
•Broader discourses
of publish or perish (or
increasingly publish
and perish)
•The politics and
practices of rankings,
citations
•Discourses on
intellectual property
rights and open
scholarship
Micro context
shaping research
•Changing academic
identities
•Teaching versus
research
•Performance contracts
•Promotion criteria
The role, rewards and
penalties of being a
researcher in a
particular discipline &
contextBeing a researcher
Doing research
11. Some paradoxes, trends and issues
• Who/what qualifies/determines what is regarded as research? The
role of networks, regimes, traditional metrics for measuring impact,
disciplinary context, etc.
• How does research differ between a teaching-intensive institution
and a research-intensive institution?
• How differently do we value, reward, & celebrate research done as
‘lone (but celebrated) hero’ or as collaborative research?
• How do we measure researcher impact? Citations? Different
metrics/Altmetrics/digital identities and footprints – see the work by
Laura Czerniewicz - Academics’ online presence: A four-step guide
to taking control of your visibility. Also see Hitchcock (2014) - Twitter
and blogs are not add-ons to academic research, but a simple
reflection of the passion that underpins it.
13. My own context: Some statistics re
Progressio
• A small but only South African journal dedicated to
open, distance and e-learning practice
• Accredited by the South African Department of
Higher Education and Training since 2011
• 2 issues per year (± 28 articles) plus a special issue
• Print run of 500 copies, articles on SABINET after a
period of 3 months
• During 2013 received 100 articles for review,
rejection rate of about 40%
• Required ratio of 51% outside of Unisa:49% Unisa
authors
14. Being an editor: Images and metaphors
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If your article is accepted
the editor is a…
If your article is rejected
you want the editor …
If you must revise and rework the
article, the editor and reviewers
are ….
15. One morning when I woke up…
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Parker, M. (2004). Becoming manager: Or, the werewolf looks anxiously in the
mirror, checking for unusual facial hair. Management Learning, 35, 45-59.
Very little research on becoming and being an editor… [Freda, M.C., & Nicoll, L.H.
(2011). The Editor’s Handbook: An Online Resource and CE Course. Philadelphia,
PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins]
16. Being an editor: What do editors find difficult?
(e.g., Gladding, 1982 – note the date…)
• Time to be an editor and meet other
professional duties (8-12 hours per week)
• Finding journal space for quality articles
• Managing correspondence
• Meeting publication deadlines
• Sending letters of rejection
• Selecting appropriate reviewers
18. An editor’s wish list…
1. The “fit” with the journal – see the list provided at
http://academicjournalpublishing.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/choosing-right-journal-
no-1-reason-for.html
2. To what extent does the article present an original contribution to the field,
address a gap, contest previous research, break new ground? (Indicate it as
early as possible…)
3. How clear are the objectives/the research problem of the article and the line of
argumentation?
4. How thorough and current is the literature review and to what extent does the
literature review support the objectives of the article and line of argumentation?
5. How appropriate to the inquiry is the research design and methodologies?
6. To what extent does the presented evidence (whether empirical or conceptual)
support the article’s main argument and objectives?
7. How satisfactory does the article in its conclusion/recommendations describe
implications for the field?
8. Technical requirements: language, referencing, etc.
19. Some dos and don’ts
1. Ask for the evaluation criteria/metrics
2. When asked to rework the article, provide an overview of how you
addressed the concerns and issues raised by the reviewers. (Note: You
don’t always have to agree with them, but provide evidence or the rationale
why you don’t)
3. Make sure of the technical requirements and adhere to them. Yes, I know it
is a schlep…
4. When the article comes back, you have probably moved on. Stop
everything else and start immediately… It just gets harder the more you
postpone…
5. If it is rejected, look at the comments and resubmit (somewhere else?).
Illegitimi non carborundum
6. First things first – feed your curiosity, make lists, network, share ideas…
7. What keeps you going? Why do you do this? If you cannot provide the
answer, there possibly, is none…
8. Understand the field (see slides 4-9).
21. Paul Prinsloo
Research Professor in Open Distance Learning (ODL) & Editor: Progressio,
South African Journal for Open and Distance Learning Practice
College of Economic and Management Sciences
Office number 3-15, Club 1, Hazelwood
P O Box 392
Unisa, 0003, Republic of South Africa
+27 (0) 12 433 4719 (office)
+27 (0) 82 3954 113 (mobile)
Skype: paul.prinsloo59
Personal blog: http://opendistanceteachingandlearning.wordpress.com
Twitter profile: @14prinsp
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
22. References (excluding those referred to with hyperlinks)
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