Classes & Reading

Date			Slides	Topics	Additional Reading		Activities
			Preparing for a scholarly study
May		7th	Class 1	Orientation		Download Chapter One from Course Textbook An Incomplete Guide to the Art of Discovery by Jack Oliver	Get ready
		14th	Class 2	Introduction to Research Design		Chapter on Methodological and Epistemic Framework: From Positivism to Post-positivism Paper on Participatory Research	Identify a research question in a journal article and discuss which design would be best to study the question and why. Select a topic that you would like to study. Use the four combinations of worldviews, strategies of inquiry and research methods, to think about whether the design would be quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods research.
		21st	Class 3	Review of Literature		Technical report Guidelines for performing Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering Paper on tool for Conducting Literature Reviews in Information Systems Paper entitled Systematic literature reviews in software engineering – A systematic literature review A systematic review On Information Systems Offshoring Mapping of Studies on ITIL	Write a Concept Note
Saturday 27/5/2017 to Thursday  29/6/2017 –  Mid-Semester Break / Ramadan & Eid Elfitr
July		2nd	Class 4	Use of Theory		Creswell (Chapter 3)	Submit Assignment #1
		Research Writing & Ethics					Conduct Literature Review
		9th	Class 5	Writing Strategies, Research Ethics, and Critical Thinking		Ethics for IT Professionals/Professional Code of Ethics Read Oxfam's 2014 report on poverty
		Designing Research
		16th	Class 6	The Introduction and Purpose Statement		Towards a Guide for Novice Researchers on Research Methodology: Review and Proposed Methods (paper) On the Benefits and Challenges of Mixing Methods and Methodologies (paper)
		23rd	Class 7	Research Question and Hypothesis		Creswell, Chapter 7 Papers: The impact of cybercafés on information services in Uganda (Quantitative example) ICT and the Democratization Process in North Africa: Tool of Freedom or Instrument of Oppression? (Qualitative example) Integrating Technology and Problem-based Learning: A Mixed Methods Study of Two Teacher Professional Development Designs (Mixed Methods example)
		30th	Class 8	The Research Proposal and Thesis		(2013) Tajalizadehkhoob  “Online Banking Freud Mitigation” (Quantitative approach) Sørensen (2012) “Social Processes Influencing Knowledge Sharing and the use of Information Communication Technology” (Qualitative approach) Engebretsen (2005) “Acceptance of Information Technology by Health Research Projects in Low-income Countries” (Mixed Methods approach) O'Sheedy (2012) ”A study of agile project management methods used for IT implementation projects in small and medium-sized enterprises” (Mixed methods approach) Sobhani (2008) “Impact of IT on Productivity” (Mixed methods approach)
August	13th		Class 9	Quantitative Methods		Creswell’s: Chapters 7, 8 and 9		Develop Proposal
	20th		Class 10	Qualitative Methods
	27th		Class 11	Mixed Methods		Creswell’s Chapter 10 Papers: Mixed Methods Research: A Research Paradigm Whose Time Has Come The Death of Mixed Methods: Research Labels and their Casualties
Sunday 10th September -- Revision Class