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LRNT 526

QUALITY ASSURANCE IN MOOCS – CRITICAL INQUIRY RESEARCH LOG #2

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Below is my second research log.   Much of it was focused on the team presentation and little time was spent on my individual research paper.  I am hoping that this week and next I will be able to spend some serious time on my paper.

 

RESEARCH LOG

4-May-2018 Team Awesome Sauce Virtual Meeting Used Nicolette’s paid subscription to Appear.in to make sure that our connection worked better than last time….
4-May-2018 Went through our selected course on edX
7-May-2018 Team Awesome Sauce Virtual Meeting
9-May-2018 Team Awesome Sauce Virtual Meeting Divided up specific roles for our presentation
 9-May-2018 Finished our selected course through edX
9-May-2018 started writing introduction for our team video and my 2 minute piece on QA
10-May-2018 Incorporated Dr. Devries feedback on my outline into my new plan Narrowed the focus greatly on my research. Focusing more on what types of QA MOOCs currently employ and whether traditional online QA can or should apply to MOOCs
12-May-2018 Team Awesome Sauce Vitual Meeting Complete draft of our individual written sections and discussed next steps
13-May-2018 Work on script Finish writing draft of my script for the video
14-May-2018 Team Awesome Sauce Virtual Meeting Touch base, evaluate progress.
15-May-2018 Team Awesome Sauce Virtual Meeting Review script drafts and provide comments for each team member
16-May-2018 Finish writing introduction and my individual piece for our team written submittal
18-May-2018 Test collaborate Meet up with Nicolette at 9:00am to go through presentation in collaborate
18-May-2018 FINAL PRESENTATION Moderate final presentation in collaborate
21-May-2018 Review feedback review all of the feedback provided by peers on our presentation
25-May-2018 Write draft for team feedback
LRNT 522, Uncategorised

What Motivates Us to Research?

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This week’s podcast from Dr. George Velestianos got me thinking about what motivates us to do research?  It’s hard, it’s time-consuming, and did I mention the amount of reading that is necessary in order to perform a thorough research study…just thinking about it makes my head hurt.  Yet, as I write this I am oddly intrigued by the possibility of undertaking a research project myself in order to get some concrete data to support all the anecdotal claims I have been making over the past few years as an educator.

It was not easy to find any research on what motivates us to do research (maybe more research is needed in this area?).  One interesting article I did find polled college faculty who had been published as researchers and found that while many people were motivated by money, either a salary increase or other incentives that were offered to them for undertaking the research (LeBlanc & McCrary, 1990, pp. 67-68) , 42% said that personal satisfaction was the main motivator, followed by rewards for the institution at 21%,  rewards for their discipline at 20%, and approval from others at 10% (pp. 65-66).

I don’t think I’m there yet to be motivated fully by personal satisfaction to jump into a research study, although I do feel a ‘pull’ (maybe a push) to start taking part in formal research.  Hopefully by the time we start our research projects I will find my motivation and be engaged to become part of the world of academic research.

References:

LeBlanc, A., & McCrary, J. (1990). Motivation and perceived rewards for research by music faculty. Journal of Research in Music Education, 38(1), 61-68.