Reports - Educational Research Methods

Educational Research Methods:

"Research Methods

See the publications page for a selection of relevant literature on higher education research. There is no natural research method for the exploration of teaching and learning because it depends on the subject and the research question in hand. Below are some notes/ guidelines to methods and issues concerning research into higher education teaching and learning. For examples of pedagogical research, there is a very good site at Oxford Brookes: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/5_research/pedres.html"

Resources - Vanguard University

Vanguard University - Qualitative Research Resources

IAUL: Institute research

IAUL: Institute research

Phenomenography is a qualitative approach to research that seeks to map the qualitative variation in the experience of a phenomenon. This research perspective is becoming increasingly popular in Northern Europe, South East Asia and Australia, but the field is still in its infancy in the UK. This seminar, presented by the Institute for the Advancement of University Learning at the University of Oxford, focused on the methodology and outcomes of this research approach. The seminar included the presentation (by Elaine Martin and Michael Prosser) of results from a recent study combining phenomenography with analysis of metaphor.

Land of Phenomenography: http://www.ped.gu.se/biorn/phgraph/welcome.html

Phenomenography:Discernment and Variation - Keith Trigwell pdf (36K)

EDEN Website

EDEN Website: "EDEN, continuing its successful series of conferences, invites you to join a cutting edge event in Finland. The EDEN 2005 Annual Conference will focus on open, distance and e-learning from the perspective of lifelong learning – maintaining and broadening in the meantime the thematic scope of the EDEN Conferences."

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