Why research!

Workshop on
Towards Enabling & Empowering Pragmatic Research Activities at MIIT
Session Date Time Topic
Session 1 September 25, 2018
5 PM
to
6 PM
Why Research! How to start!
Session 2 September 27, 2018 What is Research!
Session 3 October 1, 2018
How to do!
Session 4 October 3, 2018
Why Research! (Does it help in achieving Academic Excellence!)How to Start!

Why Research!
(Does it help in achieving Academic Excellence!)
G R Sinha, PhD
IEEE Senior Member, ACM Distinguished Speaker, IEEE Distinguished Speaker, IETE Fellow
Professor, Myanmar Institute of Information Technology Mandalay
Recipient of ISTE National Award, TCS Award, IEI Award, Expert Engineer Award, Young Engineer Award, Young Scientist Award
Email: drgrsinha@ieee.org, ganeshsinha@acm.com, gr_Sinha@miit.edu.mm

 Motivation (Do we have goals!)
 Why Research!
 Change Agent in Improving Quality of Life
 Academic Excellence and Employability
 Research based Learning through Involvement and Collaboration
 Research is Easy Going and Teaching Success Process and Positive Attitude
 Set Smart Goals
 Takeaway
 Can We Start MIIT Research now!
3Why Research! Does it help in achieving Academic Excellence! G R Sinha @MIIT # 25th September 2018
Outline of Talk

 Take up one idea
 Make that one idea your life
 Think of it, dream of it. Live on that idea
 Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of the body be full
of that idea
 This the way to “SUCCESS”
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Motivation
(Do We have Goals!)
Why Research! Does it help in achieving Academic Excellence! G R Sinha @MIIT # 25th September 2018

Desire to get:
 Research degree and consequential benefits
 Challenges in solving unsolved problems
 Intellectual joy and respect
 To be of service to society
 Academic Excellence!
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Why Research!
# Profile_G_R_Sinha.pdf, List_of_Publications_G_R_Sinha.pdf, Filing Receipt.pdf

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Change Agent in Improving Quality of Life
Amount of
knowledge
Advancement of
Technology
Utility of
Applications
Quality of Life
Basic Research
Applied Research
Application Development
Curiosity

Categories of Teacher:
 Below average: Complains
 Average: Teaches
 Good: Explains
 Excellent: Inspires
 Which category you want to be!
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Academic Excellence

 Development of Multiple Intelligence through Research: Critical Thinking; Decision-Making;
Problem Solving; Effective Communication etc.
 Verbal & Written communication through Research
 We, Teachers have Great Responsibility towards developing Employability Skills of
Students/Learners
 Does Research Empower and provide us Opportunity for being change agent!
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Employability
Knowledge Plus Skills Makes Employable

Tell me, I will forget
Show me, I may remember
Involve me, and I will understand
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Chinese Proverb supports Research based Learning
So, Research based Learning begins from Involvement and Collaboration!

Research is:
 Discovery (rediscovery); A voyage from the known to the unknown.
 Working in teams to experience and explore relevant, real-world problems, questions, issues, and
challenges; and then creating knowledge and products.
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Research provides Learning Environment

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Research for Continuous Improvement
Say what you want
Do what you say
Prove it
Improve it

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Education driven Research and Innovation
Education Research
Innovation

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Research is Easy Going and Fun
 Research is Easy-going with Fun Scopus_JSTPM.pdf, Emerald.pdf, Samples-of-Articles-and-Blogs.pdf

 Goal Identification (Dream)
 Strengthening commitment to Goal
 Change Behavior
 Change Attitude
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Research teaches Success Process

 Weakens commitment to goal
 Overconfidence and Low Self confidence
 Lack of Self worth
 Adoption of victim role and cursing the authority
 Unwillingness to seek help
 Resistance to change
 Tendency toward procrastination
 Avoidance of areas of weakness or perceived unpleasantness
 Aptitude and Attitude helps in achieving Altitude! Lets us Great Attitude!!
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Negative Attitude Inhibits

 FAIL: First Attempt In Learning
 END: Effort Never Dies
 NO: Next Opportunity
 FEAR: Face Everything and Rise!
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Positive Attitude

 SMART means:
 Specific
 Measurable
 Achievable
 Result Oriented
 Time-bound
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Set Smart Goals

 Lifelong Learning
 Mapping Objective with Learning Outcome
 Development of Competence
 Benefit of Society and Mankind
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Takeaway (Tangible Outcome)

 Have Dreams
 Outreach
 Discuss, Discuss, Discuss!
 Interact, Interact and Interact!
 MIIT-M: My Interest Is Transforming Myanmar towards Knowledge Economy
 So, Let us have focused Goal for MIIT Research: towards achieving Academic Excellence!
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Can We Start MIIT Research now!
MIIT: My Interest In Team-based Teaching & Transformation

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Inspiring Equation
E= mc2
E = Excellence m= Motivation c=Commitment
Example:
c= 0.5 (half hearted), E= 1/4
&
c= 2 (doubly committed), E= 4
Thank you, any queries please!

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