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 <m...@purdue.edu> > Sender: tos-bounces@teachingopensource.orgDate: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:50:35 > To: 'TOS List'<tos@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... > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
