This document summarizes the content of the first week of a seminar course on educational technology research. The course covers defining research, research methods, the research process, and topic selection. Specific topics discussed include learning outcomes, what research can be used for, advantages of research, researcher responsibilities, research skills, design, structure, steps, and how to select a topic, narrow it down, and develop a research proposal. The instructors are Dr. Noora Al-Malki and Dr. Amal Alshusha.

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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