Volunteers Needed for Research Study

Just one of the notices from the recent MERLOT Grapevine newsletter.

Doctoral candidate Allyson Heisey at Capella University is seeking disabled adult volunteers who teach online, to participate in a research study. The purpose of the study is to enhance and extend the understanding of teleworking by examining the work/life balance of online instructors who have a disability.

Participation in this study could help improve and/or enhance the current understanding of teleworking as a technology that can provide reasonable accommodation for disabled persons.

The study involves a 20-30 minute anonymous interview about experiences as an online instructor with a disability. If you are interested in participating contact Allyson at aheisey@capellauniversity.edu.

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Research Project Request

Malinka Ivanova (@malinkaiva) from the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria is conducting a survey about social networks usage in teacher’s practice and personal learning network building. The research will explore the static and dynamic views of personal network organization in order to create a model for PLN optimization.

The survey focuses mainly on the use of Twitter and Facebook. If you are interestested in this area, please could you take the time to fill in this short survey and spread the word.

All responses to be in by 20th May at the latest!

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Online Research Tutorial

The Internet Detective is a very useful tutorial for students in further and higher education and should help them develop good Internet research skills, which can be put to use for producing their coursework.

The tutorial examines the critical thinking required when using the Internet for research and offers good "practical advice on evaluating the quality of web sites". The Internet Detective also delves into the thorny issues of plagiarism and copyright.

It is very easy to work through the various sections with lots of interactive exercises provided to make the journey interesting enough to keep going.

The tutorial also includes several quizzes along the way to test the readers attention to the content given! A very useful ready-made resource.

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Technorati Tags: copyright, internet detective, plagiarism, research skills

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