Preparing Researchers of Tomorrow

Niemczyk, Ewelina K.

doi:10.1007/978-94-6209-046-0_5

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“…Thus, institutions that provide an environment that engages doctoral students may help them feel more satisfaction and relatedness with their learning environment, leading to program completion. Doctoral students are the next generation of academic scholars who will guide the future of universities (Niemczyk, 2013). Thus, incorporating technology into online doctoral programs may promote the development of scholars.…”

Section: Implementing Tech Nologymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Preliminary Examination of Doctoral Student Retention Factors in Private Online Workspaces

Ames

Berman

Casteel

2018

IJDS

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Aim/PurposeThe purpose of this quantitative descriptive study is to provide a preliminary examination of students' retention factors of engagement, communication, and isolation that may be affected by the introduction and use of online communities for dissertation development within an online doctoral program. BackgroundThis research is a continuation of the university's 5-year research initiative to address the high national rate of doctoral attrition by investigating whether private online workspaces provide a virtual platform to increase student interaction, enhance student communication, and reduce student perception of isolation.

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Section: Implementing Tech Nologymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Preliminary Examination of Doctoral Student Retention Factors in Private Online Workspaces

Ames

Berman

Casteel

2018

IJDS

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“…CFICE student perspectives extend the insights gained from the broader literature on the experiences of research assistants and other students involved in longer-term CCE work (Levkoe et al, 2014;Niemczyk, 2013;Pei, et al, 2015;Savan, 2004;Schwartz, 2010), and further inform practical suggestions for enhancing student engagement in communityfirst CCE projects. A community-first approach provides student researchers with expanded opportunities for critical reflection, capacity building, and relationship development, while at the same time forcing students to contend with challenging power imbalances and conflicts borne out of navigating complex political and interpersonal terrains.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 69%

“I had a big revelation”: Student Experiences in Community- First Community-Campus Engagement

Przednowek¹,

Goemans²,

Wilson³

2019

ESJ

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While there is a wealth of literature on community-campus engagement (CCE) that incorporates student perspectives from course-based community service learning settings, the stories of students involved in longer-term CCE projects remain underexplored. This paper addresses this gap by examining the experiences of students working as research assistants (RAs) within a multi-year Canadian CCE project, “Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement” (CFICE). Drawing on interviews with RAs, student insights from a general evaluation of the CFICE project, and the authors’ own reflections, we consider the ways in which meaningful, long-standing engagements with community partners as part of community-first CCE projects provide students with both enhanced opportunities and challenges as they navigate the complexities of intersecting academic and community worlds. Further, this paper identifies promising practices to improve student experiences and the overall impact of longer-term community-campus partnerships and program management structures.

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“…Students with dominant conception that ICT enhances research (Category B), in contrast, may benefit from a more nuanced understanding about when ICT makes a difference and practical experience of how specific technologies, methods and approaches -particularly new data-driven techniques, visual data analysis tools and virtual research laboratories -can be used in their research domain. These students could particularly benefit from collaborative online projects that offer mentorship for research students, such as Distributed Research Lab (2012), and other models of research apprenticeship (Niemczyk, 2013) that embrace ICT in various aspects of research, such as data analysis and collaboration.…”

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Research students’ conceptions of the role of information and communication technologies in educational technology research

Markauskaitė

Wardak

2015

AJET

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The emergence of big data, digital scholarship and eResearch raises the question of how these digital developments in research methods and practices affect research students. This paper presents findings from a phenomenographic study that investigated postgraduate students’ conceptions of the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in research. Ten students conducting research in the broad area of educational technology were interviewed. Three qualitatively different conceptions of ICT in research were identified: complementary, enhancing, and transforming. Results indicate that the three conceptions were closely associated with the expanding students’ focus from seeing ICT as a tool in the researchers’ hands, to noting that digital technologies may have implications for the process of inquiry, to seeing that ICT has distinct generative capacities and changes the nature of research practices. Findings suggest that students’ general understanding of ICT’s potential in research is underpinned not by abstract knowledge, but by their practical experiences of how ICT works and their abilities to see how technologies can enhance researchers’ individual capacities to generate knowledge in specific situations. Some implications for postgraduate research students’ education and capacity building are discussed.

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Preparing Researchers of Tomorrow

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

A Preliminary Examination of Doctoral Student Retention Factors in Private Online Workspaces

A Preliminary Examination of Doctoral Student Retention Factors in Private Online Workspaces

“I had a big revelation”: Student Experiences in Community- First Community-Campus Engagement

Research students’ conceptions of the role of information and communication technologies in educational technology research

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