COURSE MATERIAL & ACTIVITIES

Month / Day		Slides	Topics	Additional Reading		Activities
		Preparing for a scholarly study
November 2019	17h	Class 1	Orientation		Download Main Course Textbook An Incomplete Guide to the Art of Discovery by Jack Oliver	Get ready
	24th	Class 2	Introduction to Research Design		Chapter on Methodological and Epistemic Framework: From Positivism to Post-positivism Paper on Participatory Research	Identify a research question in a journal article and discuss which design would be best to study the question and why. Select a topic that you would like to study. Use the four combinations of worldviews, strategies of inquiry and research methods, to think about whether the design would be quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods research.
December 2019	1st	Class 3	Review of Literature		Video on Using Concept Mapping for Developing your Research (2013) Systematic Literature Review in Computer Science - A Practical Guide (2016) Check Recent Computer Science Review Articles on Elsevier (2019)	Start Assignment #1: Write a Concept Note
	8th	Class 4	Use of Theory		A Grounded Theory Model of Mobile Technology Addiction Sustaining a Nepali Telecenter: An Ethnographic Study Using Activity Theory Variables influencing information security policy compliance: a systematic review of quantitative studies	Work on Assignment #1
	Research Writing & Ethics					Submit Assignment #1
	15th	Class 5	Writing Strategies, Research Ethics, and Critical Thinking		Ethics in Computing Programming Ethics Cloud Computing and Developing Nations
	Designing Research
	22nd	Class 6	The Introduction and Purpose Statement		Towards a Guide for Novice Researchers on Research Methodology: Review and Proposed Methods (paper) On the Benefits and Challenges of Mixing Methods and Methodologies (paper)	Get Ready
	29th	Class 7	Research Question and Hypothesis		The impact of cybercafés on information services in Uganda (Quantitative example) ICT and the Democratization Process in North Africa: Tool of Freedom or Instrument of Oppression? (Qualitative example) Integrating Technology and Problem-based Learning: A Mixed Methods Study of Two Teacher Professional Development Designs (Mixed Methods example)	Start Assignment #2: Develop Research Proposal (Group Activity)
January 2020	5th	Class 8	Research Proposals & Theses		Masters Theses and Project Reports 2019 (Brown University) Computer Science Theses and Dissertations 2019 (Iowa State University)	Work on Research Proposal
	Research Methods					Submit Research Proposal
	12th	Class 9	Quantitative Methods		Read Creswell Chapter 8
	19th	Class 10	Qualitative Methods		Read Creswell Chapter 9	Prepare for Presentation/Submit Report (Individual Activity)
	26th	Class 11	Mixed Methods		Read Creswell Chapter 10
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