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This presentation covers basic approach on educational action research and basic technique on this research.Detail Description: Topics: 1. What is educational action research? 2. Approach on...
View ArticleProjects Slated for the Rest of 2011
Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. -George Santayana This next semester is a busy one. Dissertation The last few days...
View ArticleAsking Why Instead of How (#Change11)
How to balance soft and hard technology? Soft technologies are flexible, supporting creativity and change, because the gaps inside them have to be filled with processes constructed by people. They are...
View ArticleNarrowing down a research topic
Evernote Narrowing down a research topic Selecting a topic (handout): Move from an everyday problem that you would like to investigate (stage 1) to defining a specific subject, perspective, and...
View ArticleThe Mitra Debate: Research vs. Teaching Practice
I read ELTJam meets Sugata Mitra today and found some interesting comments that I thought I might tease out. My comments today are based mainly on Robinson's text as many of the YouTube videos I was...
View ArticleParticipatory Action Research
Does the image below represent the notion of participatory action research? What's missing?
View ArticleThesis Seminar Weekly Roundup
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