Using a Virtual Research Environment to support new models of collaborative and participative research in Scottish education

Wilson, Alastair; Rimpiläinen, Sanna; Skinner, Don; Cassidy, Claire; Christie, Donald; Coutts, Norman Charles; Sinclair, Christine

doi:10.1080/14759390701614413

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“…Our findings join those of others working at a distance to point out that virtual teams pose some special administrative challenges (Wilson, 2010). This is particularly the case if one is trying to adhere to the participatory characteristic of action research.…”

Section: Virtual Action Research Greatly Increased Faculty Workloadsupporting

confidence: 80%

Enhancing student research through a virtual participatory action research project: Student benefits and administrative challenges

Gordon

Edwards

2012

Action Research

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Can graduate students in a distance learning environment gain meaningful research experience through a virtual participatory action research project? The answer is an emphatic 'yes.' The purpose of this article is twofold: to demonstrate how and to what extent graduate students can gain research experience through participation with alumni and faculty in an action research project, and to examine administrative issues arising from adhering to the democratic participatory action research process under virtual constraints. Project success is determined through documents produced by participants in the Faculty-Student Mentoring Project and from two focus group evaluations held via conference calls. The data demonstrated that the students and alumni increased their research skills, used their skills and knowledge in other courses and their dissertations, presented, and published. The university gained valuable information. The democratic participatory aspect of action research and the virtual environment created administrative challenges such as scheduling and workload issues. Recommendations include: screening volunteers to determine their levels of expertise and commitment; providing time for participants to get to know each other and the technology at the outset of the project; setting expectations for participation; sharing the project management; and anticipating more time for virtual than face-to-face research.

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Section: Virtual Action Research Greatly Increased Faculty Workloadsupporting

confidence: 80%

Enhancing student research through a virtual participatory action research project: Student benefits and administrative challenges

Gordon

Edwards

2012

Action Research

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“…At this stage, the teachers were assisted and closely guided to ensure that they all signedonas participants inthe virtual training andwere able to proceed onto the next level, the application stage. At this pointteachers explore and discover mediaof interaction and communication via e-collaboration [20]. They share their thoughts and opinions and thus reflect on their experience.…”

Section: Research Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Developmental Process of Managing Virtual Training for Teachers

Razak¹,

Yusop²,

Perumal³

et al. 2015

IJIET

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Abstract-This paper explores the developmental process of managing virtual training for 120 teachers from three different schools. Training session's wereadministered in two phases: authentic environment andface-to-face virtual environment. Observation and content analysis were the two techniques employed in collecting the data. The outcome of the research was production of a system for managing virtual training for teachers. Index Terms-Virtual training, technology training, instructional materials, ICT com petencies.

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“…From description of the wiki in practice we now move on to more considered discussion of possible transformations to the research process that the wiki represents. The central proposition to this article is that the affordances of the new technologies – digital data, central collection on an internet server, the wiki architecture – allow for changes in the process of collaborative research which may challenge some of the fundamentals of traditional academic research (Wilson et al, 2007).…”

Section: ‘Wi-research’: the Wikimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…What studies of wikis used to promote learning through dialogue at universities have discovered is that while certain members feel confident to contribute and slip easily in to an appropriate style, others find it less easy and are reticent (e.g. Wilson et al, 2007). Encouraging participation among all based on principles of equality of power and similarity of position may be a particular challenge that our team will need to address.…”

Section: ‘We-research’: Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘We-research’: Adopting a wiki to support the processes of collaborative research among a team of international researchers

Young

Pérez

2011

International Journal of Music Education

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This article discusses the adoption of a wiki to support the processes of collaborative research between members of an international team involved in the project MyPlace: MyMusic. The focus is on how new technological communications, here specifically the wiki, can enable and transform the methods and processes of research. We propose two main aspects the use of the wiki can bring to research in music education: to facilitate multi-modal research processes and to promote research as a collective rather than individual practice. Both aspects, we argue, can extend the potential for music education research and subvert some of the limiting hierarchical traditions of academic research. This shift to a networked, multi-modal research method calls for new skills: technological, personal and social. Some analytical models of networked processes by other authors provide illuminative templates and these are introduced. The article maintains a balanced view, describing potential advantages alongside possible pitfalls.

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Using a Virtual Research Environment to support new models of collaborative and participative research in Scottish education

Cited by 13 publications

References 18 publications

Enhancing student research through a virtual participatory action research project: Student benefits and administrative challenges

Enhancing student research through a virtual participatory action research project: Student benefits and administrative challenges

The Developmental Process of Managing Virtual Training for Teachers

‘We-research’: Adopting a wiki to support the processes of collaborative research among a team of international researchers

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