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Aggregated blogs for the Introduction to Social Research Methods MOOC

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The ‘SOCRMx News‘ is the blog aggregator for the Introduction to Social Research Methods MOOC from the University of Edinburgh on the edX platform.

Category: Social Research Methods

A research review

In this critical review, I will be looking at the research ‘Open to influences: what counts as academic influence in scholarly networked Twitter participation’ (Stewart, 2015, p. 294). Bonnie Stewart’s (2015) research mainly focuses on how academics establish and assess … Read the rest

Posted on March 4, 2018Author SkayeCategories #SOCRMx, MSc Digital Education, Social Research MethodsTags #SOCRMx

Finding an example of experimental intervention

For this week I have been looking for research conducted using the experimental intervention. I decided not to use the university’s library for this, but to look at other available research through Academia. Finding something that fits with the … Read the rest

Posted on February 5, 2018Author SkayeCategories #SOCRMx, MSc Digital Education, Social Research MethodsTags #SOCRMx

Stroop experiment

For week 2 of the MOOC I picked the experimental intervention method.

As part of the course I was asked to take a test, which you can find here. My response time to the first parts was 15.902 seconds … Read the rest

Posted on February 5, 2018Author SkayeCategories #SOCRMx, MSc Digital Education, Social Research MethodsTags #SOCRMx

My first blog (MOOC SOCRMx)

I have been asked to write my first blog as part of the MOOC for SOCRMx by answering a few questions.

What kind of topics are you interested in researching?

At the moment I am considering the following topics. Blended … Read the rest

Posted on January 29, 2018Author SkayeCategories #SOCRMx, MSc Digital Education, Social Research MethodsTags #SOCRMx
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