[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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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mel Chua <mel at purdue.edu>
> > Sender: tos-bounces at teachingopensource.orgDate: Tue, 20 Sep 2011
10:50:35
> > To: 'TOS List'<tos at teachingopensource.org>
> > 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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On 09/20/2011 09:50 AM, Mel Chua wrote:
> 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...
> _______________________________________________
> tos mailing list
> tos at teachingopensource.org
> http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos