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: > > > > Sent from a mobile phone. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mel Chua <[email protected]> > > Sender: [email protected]: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:50:35 > > To: 'TOS List'<[email protected]> > > 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... > > _______________________________________________ > > tos mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
