From Social Network to Research Network: A Novel Approach for Integrating Teaching and Research Through Technology

Makale İngilizce

Künye:

Yazarlar:

Ramazan ACUN

Ekle

Emeği Geçenler:

Ekle

Yayın Yılı:

2018

Yayınlandığı Eser:

The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology

Cilt:

Sayı:

Special Issue for IETC & ITEC 2018

Sayfa Aralığı:

191-198

İçerik Dosyası:

Web adresi:

http://www.tojet.net/special/2018_12_1.pdf

Operatör:

Ramazan Acun

Güncelleyen:

Ramazan Acun

Özet:

This paper describes a novel approach for integrating teaching and research. The
integration is achieved through a web based collaborative network platform which
allows students to interact with each other in exploring, collecting, entering, and
analyzing bibliographic citation data to learn the structure of the area in which they
want to carry out further study.
A mechanism of inheritance is implicit in the process: each year students, search
and explore the bibliographic citation data entered into the system by the previous
groups of students and make improvements on it by cleaning, correcting and making additions. The data is explored and analyzed, in addition to traditional searching and browsing techniques, using two methods implemented within the system: Social Network Analysis and Content Analysis.
Students initially learn the core concepts of these two methods as well as quality
and quantity of the data available in the system through easy exploration and
visualization. They then move to work on the data until satisfactory results are obtained in answering questions they develop in the process. This process can be repeated until publishable results are obtained.
Although, the use of the system is currently limited to one department in one higher education institution in Turkey, it is generic and can readily be used in other disciplines and institutions. This paper describes this system and points to further work.