Learner Reviews & Feedback for Understanding Research Methods by University of London
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MA
Sep 13, 2019
It was a perfect course for understanding the research methods. It helps me a lot, thanks to the University of London and 糖心vlog官网观看 for providing this opportunity to enhance our Knowledge in research.
RP
May 1, 2020
The course was very simple and easily understandable. The assignments were very interesting. The peer review activity provided scope to learn from the others too. It was a great learning experience.
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By Emily W
鈥Nov 29, 2020
I wanted to give this course 5 stars because the content is really good, all the reading materials were incredibly useful and I enjoyed the videos and was able to take a lot from them. Unfortunately the forums aren't used as discussion forums - instead of any discussion about the materials there are just streams of requests for people to review submissions, which shouldn't be needed as the course is structured so that each time you make one submission you review three others, also because the e-tivities are only peer reviewed the quality and usefulness of the feedback is mostly not good, out of 4 submissions I have had 10 peer reviews so far and only one of them followed the advice to focus on what was good (but didn't give any suggestions for improvement) and the rest have either been single word responses (eg 'good' or 'fantastic'), despite the recommendation being at least 50 words, some had simply given information about tangentially related topics (a bunch of data about elementary school reading interventions, and a summary of some of the information from one of the other articles which I hadn't been responding to as the task clearly and in bold stated 'or'). This lack of meaningful interaction with anyone left me feeling disheartened and that I was working in a void. I think the moderators should be keeping the discussion forums on track, and that some feedback from the course teachers, even if only for the last submission would make a big difference. I didn't but the certificate because I didn't think that the assessment method for the course was rigourous enough to confer any value to having passed.
By Stuart S
鈥Nov 12, 2020
I think there should have been better descriptions of the assignments and better controls over the work product of students (some of which was extremely weak)
also, the coursework regarding the Research Approach and relation of Designs and Methods was clunky:
it should have started with the Problem Identification (not just through literature review, but trends and current problems), then researcher dynamics, their personal experiences, resources available, etc, and the audience and the purpose of the project. After the stage has been set:
Researcher - Worldview, experience, capabilities, resources
Situation - audience, purpose, attributes, time availability
Project Determination - research Problem identification (Literature Review, Trends in Social and behavioral information, economic background and current issues) - Research Problem
Establish the Research Question - Why is it important, who it impacts, what is the implication from determining an answer, its utility and impact on knowledge, along with research ability and time. Time should be spent on refining the specific question, based on research ability
Research Approach - more clearly state the identification of the overall approach, why is it important to establish Qual v Quant v Mixed, and clearly establish
Research Design - How a design fits into the overall "Approach" (an Approach implies certain designs be used, why and how)
Research Methods - these should be stated and communicated as the specific execution Research Procedures
the course needs to be reordered starting with the high level first and then getting more granular