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	6: Re: Thinking of PhD Reserach By: James Dalziel	In response to 1	09/10/07 05:20 AM	[ Reply \| Forward ]
Hi Alfred, Apologies for the slow response - I'd missed your post until now. Glad to hear my visit has sparked both your interest and that of your colleagues at NUS. I can certainly see various promising avenues for research along the lines you suggest, especially exploring differences between "stated" and "actual" pedagogical approaches, as well as exploring how an educator's pedagogical approaches "pre-LAMS" might be different to how they evolve with ongoing use of LAMS. Some research on the impact of LAMS on teachers includes the BECTA schools pilot of LAMS: http://partners.becta.org.uk/upload-dir/downloads/page_documents/research/lams.pdf and the JISC HE/FE pilot of LAMS: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/LAMS%20Final%20Report.pdf While both of these studies are from a few years ago, and based on LAMS V1, they provide interesting early data and suggestions for future research. It would be interesting to explore any variations in these general findings under LAMS V2. Another area of work that may relate to your interests is the new work on "pedagogic planners" - especially the two JISC funded projects in this area - London Knowledge Lab project: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning_pedagogy/elp_ioeplanner.aspx Oxford project: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning_pedagogy/elp_phoebe.aspx We recently held a roundtable discussion of pedagogic planner issues in London after the 2007 European LAMS conference - the website for this is still under construction, but for an overview of the meeting (and a link to this site will be added later), see http://lamsfoundation.org/lams2007/meeting.htm Hope this helps as a start. While I can't act as a formal supervisor for your PhD, I'm happy to provide feedback when I can. James Posted by James Dalziel

	7: Re: Re: Thinking of PhD Reserach By: Alfred Low	In response to 6	09/24/07 03:29 AM	[ Reply \| Forward ]
Hi Dr Dalziel, 1. That's wonderful. Let me look at all the links that you've supplied before I write you again. 2. I am getting our InstructionalTechnology department to expedite the integration of LAMS into IVLE (our CMS/LMS) so that learning sequences can be analyzed over time. 3. I wish to examine the change of pedagogy, i.e. cognitive. situative or associative (Mayes & De Frietas, 2007) and the change of activities/task. I wish to understand the curricular and sociocultural influences affecting learning design, and then the affordances (Kennewell, Parkinson and Tanner, 2000; Conole. 2005)that are perceived and taken up in new designs. I hope to extrapolate the relationships using multivariate statistical methods such as multi dimensional scaling or factor analysis. Don't know if these methods will make any sense. Okay, back to the drawing board. Posted by Alfred Low

	10: Re: Re: Thinking of PhD Research By: Alfred Low	In response to 6	10/17/07 09:22 PM	[ Reply \| Forward ]
Dr Dalziel, I am looking for data to analyze because my tech department is sluggish in integrating LAMS with their CMS. IS it possible for you to link me to some schools in Singapore that you know of or other schools that uses LAMS and wants to do research? Please advice if this is possible and acceptable? Posted by Alfred Low

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