Unit 4. Web 2.0 and other emerging technologies applied to research

Graphic structure that uses the shape and elements of a familiar natural or manmade artefact or of an easily recognizable activity or story to organize content meaningfully.

Multicoloured and image-centred, radial diagram that represents semantic or other connections between portions of learned material hierarchically. Major ideas are connected directly to the central concept, and other ideas branch out from those.

A top-down diagram showing the relationships between concepts, including cross connections among concepts, and their manifestations.

A systematic depiction of an abstract concept in pre-defined category boxes with specified relationships, typically based on a theory or model.

This methodology entails collecting primarily textual data and examining it using interpretive analysis. So, the main way to collect data is by creating questionnaires (mostly open), preparing interviews, observing the process to be analysed, etc.

This methodology involves collecting primarily numerical data and analysing statistical methods.

CAQDAS stands for

Group of participants whom the researcher examines in an empirical investigation.

Group of people whom the study is about.

GNU environment for statistical computing and graphics developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies). It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms and similar systems (including FreeBSD and Linux), Windows and MacOS.