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Piecing together the research puzzle: A blended learning approach
Cheryl Brown &
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams
Our colleagues
The programme
Diverse Contexts58 students, 2009 – 2012
Kenya 3
Mozambique 1
Cameroon 1
Namibia 3
Nigeria 7Uganda 6
Zambia 3Zimbabwe 8
Canada 1 Austria 2
Swaziland 1
South Africa 22
2013 Cohort
Learning, Cognition and Technology
ICTs in Education: Issues and Debates
Educational ICTs for
Developing Context
Online Learning Design
Minor Dissertation
& Advanced Research
Design
1 2 3 4 5
Advanced Research
Design
Compulsory
Write a proposal for their minor dissertation
No mark awarded. Only a pass or fail
Successful completion enables student to begin research
History of the course
Original course
• Students campus-based
• Taught F-2-F
• Two afternoons a week for 2 hours for 8 weeks = 32 hours of contact
• Seminar based
• 1 Lecturer
• Students read and undertake activities between each seminar
Our hybrid model
Pre course
taskFace to
face block
Post course
proposal
Challenge
Research as a story of a complex puzzle
1. Trigger Problem:
Once upon a time ... I was concerned about … (some problem) or I was intrigued by … (some possible opportunity)
2. Context & Rationale
… because in my (context e.g. institution, country) there is a real problem/possible opportunity because ...
Research ‘puzzle piece’
Storyline: Once upon a time
1. Trigger problem
I was concerned about … (some problem) or I was intrigued by … (some possible opportunity)
2. Context & Rationale
… because in my (context e.g. institution, country) there is a real problem/possible opportunity because ...
3. Concept & Literature
At the moment other people are also concerned about … which they describe as … They think that … because they found that …
4. Conceptual/Theoretical framework
Interestingly they used … theory to try and explain … and this has given me the idea to use … in my study …
5. Research questions
… to try and understand why /how /to what extent ...
6. Research methodology
Interestingly they used … (approaches & methodologies) to find out what was happening and this given me the idea to use … in my study. I will approach … to participate in my study.
7. EthicsThey will be happy to participate as I can assure them of … (anonymity OR confidentiality) as I will conduct my research according to ...
8. Validity Other people will trust my research findings because I have ...
9. Referencing & Appendices
... and I have identified all my resources accurately and honestly in my references in-text and in the list at the end of my dissertation … and provided examples of salient documents.
10. Timeline So I am going to do … first, second, third …
11. Title and hand in my thesis titled … by …
“Dynamic lecture notes”
Students able to access notes and COMMENT
Lecturers can update notes, add new notes
Notes can be made public as OER
Activity Groups
Light Dark
A B C D
Red Team 1
Group ii
Student 1
Team 2
Group iii
Student 2
Team 3
Group iv
Student 3
Team 4
Group i
Student 4
Green Team 4
Group iii
Student 5
Team 1
Group iv
Student 6
Team 2
Group i
Student 7
Team 3
Group ii
Student 8
Blue Team 3
Group iv
Student 9
Team 4
Group i
Student 10
Team 1
Group ii
Student 11
Team 2
Group iii
Student 12
Orange Team 2
Group i
Student 13
Team 3
Group ii
Student 14
Team 4
Group iii
Student 15
Team 1
Group iv
Student 16
Research Survival
Proposal drafting processWhat? How? Who assesses? How?
1. Brainstormresearch
Paper-based puzzleFlip-chart presentations
Formative: Students & 2 lecturers
Verbal in class
2. Draft 1 Word-processeddocument in Dropbox
Formative: 1 lecturers Word-processedcomments in Dropbox
3. Draft 2 Word-processeddocument in email and/or in Dropbox
Formative: Allocated peerFormative: 1 lecturer
Emailed word-processed comments in document or completed puzzle to student, peer assessor and lecturers
4. Draft 3 Word-processeddocument in Dropbox
Formative: Student Turnitin in Sakai Assignments
5. Final Word-processeddocument in Dropbox
Summative : 3 lecturers Word-processedcomments in Dropbox
Communication about process
Table in Announcements
1 Lecturer Updated table in Announcements
Peer comments in a completed puzzle
Value of peer-assessment
Reading through your proposal has given me
insight into some of the shortfalls and
weaknesses I have in mine.
… otherwise a nice read. I learnt a couple of things from
the paper that I will apply when writing mine.
Excellent second draft, …I lower my head in shame :-(
Felt a little unqualified to provide feedback, but hey I
tried. Hope there is something you can use.
Today I have a session with them They were amazed with the Research Metaphor "Research is Complex Puzzle", and I am taking them through the process and adopting some of your presentations.
Students reusing and remixing content already
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Prepared by: Cheryl Brown & Cheryl Hodgkinson-
Williams
Contact:
cheryl.brown@uct.ac.za
cheryl.hodgkinson-williams@uct.ac.za
Presentation:
http://www.slideshare.net/cheryb/twsia-presentation-final-compressed
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