[TOS] What's the most helpful literature review I can do for y'all?

[Don Davis]

How many sources do you need? Are conference proceedings acceptable /
peer reviewed by your professor?

I would like to see a lit review of quantitative studies using FOSS in
K12 education - preferably studies related to equitable access or
computational thinking.

You'll most likely be able to get a conference paper from most of the
topics you mentioned.

> I'm planning on doing my research on the effects of open 
>> source community participation on undergraduate student learning

Are you thinking of a meta-analysis? quantitative? qualitative? mixed
methods?


On 09/26/2011 02:04 PM, Don Davis wrote:
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> From: Mel Chua <mel at purdue.edu>
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> Subject: [TOS] What's the most helpful literature review I can do for y'all?
> 
> I've got to do a literature review for class by 11/1, and can pick any 
> topic. Right now I'm looking at "teaching open source" as a topic, but 
> am guessing that's not an optionally worded phrase. Other options:
> 
> * open source and education
> * sociology of open source
> * online communities of practice
> * authentic learning experiences online
> * distributed collaboration
> * open source computing education
> * faculty workshop (design and evaluation)
> * institutional resistance to change -- paradigm shifts (Kuhn) with 
> respect to curricular revisions
> 
> Any particular terms or foci that would be useful for people here? 
> Please feel free to shamelessly use the work I'm going to have to do 
> anyway; I would *love* for this to be useful to people other than myself.
> 
> For reference, I'm planning on doing my research on the effects of open 
> source community participation on undergraduate student learning, using 
> the communities of practice framework as a lens to examine growth in 
> student learning along several axes (student perceptions and 
> self-evaluations of confidence and technical skill, "productivity"[0], 
> views of software engineering/computing as a discipline[1] global 
> awareness, etc).[2] But this is my 4th week of grad school, mind you, so 
> this is all incredibly subject to evolution.
> 
> --Mel
> 
> [0] I realize this is a hotly contested topic and don't plan on counting 
> lines of code and being done with it, mind you.
> 
> [1] For both majors and non-majors.
> 
> [2] And yes, this describes WAY too much work for me to actually take on 
> during grad school, I've been here less than a month, I'm working on 
> narrowing it down...
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