Can you take a few minutes to help a doctoral student with her research?

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  1. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    A friend of mine needs a few more respondants for her doctoral research. If you meet the criteria and can spare a few minutes, please contact Aine Irbe at [email protected].

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    My name is Aina G. Irbe and I am a doctoral student at Capella University in the School of Education. I am pursuing my degree in Instructional for Online Learning. Currently, I am working on my dissertation study, titled “Application of Universal Design for Learning in Corporate Technical Training Design: A Quantitative Study.” I would like to invite you to participate in my study. You will be able to participate in the study if you meet the following criteria:

    * You are a professional who currently works in a corporate or US Federal employment setting.

    * You are a professional who has worked in the corporate or Federal employment setting in the last 10 years.

    * You have worked in the corporate environment for at least one year.

    * You are between the ages of 18-65.

    The purpose of this quantitative, experimental study is to examine the application of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles as an instructional design strategy to the design of a self-paced, online course focused on technical training in a corporate setting.

    The study will use a randomized two-group design to compare and analyze adult posttest (Final Quiz) results for two self-paced online trainings on a technical topic (software training); one will include the checkpoints from the three principles of the UDL principles while the other training will apply traditional instructional design strategies based on the Department of Defense Interactive Media Instruction (IMI) Guidelines. The posttest (Final Quiz) will be the same for either training.

    The second part of the study will explore to what extent the application of UDL as an instructional design strategy impacts participant achievement in the cognitive and psychomotor domains. The results of this study may identify specific instructional design strategies that instructional designers working in the field of online learning could use to guide their work, guide the future of instructional design practices and processes in organizations developing online self-paced courses, change the approach for delivering training on technical topics, and inform corporations on long-term strategic planning for training programs including online learning.

    Please know that participation in this study is certainly voluntary. All data will be handled securely by the researcher. Privacy will be protected using anonymity throughout the data collection process. All the information about the participants, including name, job title and name of the organization will be kept confidential. Your Final Quiz results will be presented as part of a statistical analysis, and your name or any other demographic will not be identified or related to any score or information about Final Quiz results. In any written reports or publications, no one will be able to identify individual participants.

    If you decide to be in this study, your participation will take about one hour by the end of April. The study will consist of completing a 30-45 minute online course and taking a Final Quiz. You are not required to come to any location for the study activities or own any specific software; a URL will be sent to you. All communications will be conducted via email unless you have other preference (for example, post mail).

    I will first send you a demographic questionnaire, then a consent form, and finally the link and log in to the course site.

    Your consideration for participating in this study will be greatly appreciated. If you have any question concerning the study, please feel free to contact me at [email protected]

    Respectfully,
    Aina G. Irbe
    Doctoral Learner, Capella University
     
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    SteveFoerster, May 2, 2015
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  2. Randell1234

    Randell1234 Moderator

    Wouldn't this be just about anyone with a job history of 10+ years?

    * You are a professional who currently works in a corporate or US Federal employment setting.

    * You are a professional who has worked in the corporate or Federal employment setting in the last 10 years.

    * You have worked in the corporate environment for at least one year.

    * You are between the ages of 18-65.
     
    Randell1234, May 3, 2015
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  3. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    That's what they told me at Target too.:yikes:
     
    Kizmet, May 4, 2015
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  4. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Aina doesn't need your credit card number or SSN, I promise.

    Anyway, many of us are interested in pursuing doctoral study ourselves, and will be in her position someday. Build up those Jesus points now, people!
     
    SteveFoerster, May 4, 2015
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  5. Neuhaus

    Neuhaus Well-Known Member

    It would certainly include many (including myself). However, my father wouldn't qualify (he retired from the NYPD and briefly worked as a police officer in Wilkes-Barre).

    My wife was self-employed as a mental health counselor for a number of years before working for a non-profit. I don't think anything she did would qualify as "corporate" work, so I doubt she would qualify either.

    My brother-in-law has been teaching English in Taiwan for over a decade, so he's probably out.

    And my friend Jon (mentioned in another thread) teaches farmers in Africa how to keep bugs from destroying their crops (and some other farmery stuff I don't fully understand).

    A nurse is a professional. And he/she might work in a for-profit hospital. But does that qualify as being a "professional who currently works in a corporate setting?"

    My podiatrist is a professional but he's self-employed and only has one employee. Would we say he works in a "corporate" setting? He's the President of an LLC, after all.

    Clergy wouldn't be eligible (unless they had day jobs in the corporate world).

    Pretty much anyone who works at a non-profit or public university wouldn't qualify. Nor would teachers.

    Arguably, most self-employed people, a good portion of healthcare providers and a fair number of municipal and state civil servants wouldn't qualify.
     
    Neuhaus, May 4, 2015
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