Category: ED 601

Research Proposal, ED 601

What are the type, level, and volume of — Alaska Native participation — in online learning and online learning communities? What are the constraints or conversely the propellants for participation: access, gender, skill, and preference? To clarify, I am not asking about Alaska Native participation in formal online schooling or workplace training. Rather, I am…


Phenomenology Presentation


Research Terminology Dictionary, ED 601

  Research Terminology Dictionary   Characteristics of Quantitative Research O’Leary offers a tightly packed summary of the “quantitative tradition” in figure 8.1, page 121: Paradigm/assumption: positivism, empiricism Methodology: scientific method, hypothesis driven, deductive, reliable, valid, reproducible, objective, generalizable Methods: large scale, surveys, random control trials Data Type: generally quantitative Analysis: statistics This is so well…


Literature Review, ED 601

The following five articles were identified in literature search using the terms, “Alaska Native,” “online learning,” or variations like “online education” and “online course.” Additionally, the inclusion of search terms identifying methodology, for examples “action research” or “grounded theory,” also helped with discoverability. Certainly using the more inclusive search term “Native Americans” combined with variations…