ICT Tools for Research and Publications

Dr. Z. Zayapragassarazan, PhD.

Associate Professor of Educational Technology

Department of Medical Education

JIPMER

Puducherry -6.

e-mail: zprazan@yahoo.co.in

ICT tools for Research &

Publications

Objectives of this presentation

to explain the concept of e-learning

to introduce the various e-resources that

aids research

to demonstrate some e-research tools

to motivate the participants to adopt ICT

tools in their research processes

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Four Revolutions in Education

Revolution-I:

Changing the responsibilities of

education from parents to teacher

and from home to school

Revolution-II:

Replacement of Oral instruction by

written words

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Four Revolutions in Education

(contd.)

Revolution-III:

Invention of printing press and

subsequent availability of books

Revolution-IV:

Invention of electronics that led to the

application of mass media and ICT

(GREY REVOLUTION)

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Role of Technology in Higher Education

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Communication

Information sharing

Simulation

Evaluation

How Technology helps Higher

Education?

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Concretize teaching

Saves time

Creates Interest

Makes learning efficient

Economize learning cost

Overcomes Space & Time

Multi sensory approach (Visual,

auditory, tactile/kinesthetic)

The concept of e

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e-mail e-commerce e-marketing e-books e-shopping e-governance e-health e-exam e-banking e- interview ……….

….e-learning

ICT Products & Services for

Research E-mail & Document Exchange

E-journals

E-books

Locate, Collect data using internet

Online databases

Free /paid online courses for career development

Preparing manuscripts, proposals & papers

Discussion forums

Blogging

Teleconferencing/Videoconferencing

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Research Process

Identify research areas

Literature survey

Choose Methods for research (Q&Q)

Data Collection

Analyze & interpret

Referencing

Present / share / disseminate

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e- tools for Literature Survey

Examples for Online articles / journals

http://www.freefullpdf.com/

https://archive.org/

http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-

access-journals

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/jrnlallbooks/

all/open-access

http://www.nbrc.ac.in/library/free_journals.htm

http://124.124.221.7/AccessDetails.php

http://doaj.org/

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/browseFreeContent

http://www.e-journals.org/

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Examples for Indexing database services

Repositories

http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/

http://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/ir/handle/1840.16

/1

http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/do/search/?q=education&st

art=0&context=686929

http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/etds/

http://digitool.library.colostate.edu/R/

http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/

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e- tools for Data Collection

Examples

http://www.google.com/forms/about/

http://www.surveygizmo.com/

https://www.surveymonkey.com/

http://www.project-redcap.org/

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e-tools for analyses & Interpretation

Examples

Windows Excel

http://www.graphpad.com/

http://openrefine.org/

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e-tools for referencing

Examples

http://www.refman.com/

https://www.zotero.org/

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e-tools to check plagiarism &

grammar

Examples:

www.grammarly.com

http://www.paperrater.com/plagiarism_checker

http://www.reverso.net/text_translation.aspx?l

ang=EN

http://www.gingersoftware.com/grammarcheck

http://www.plagscan.com/

http://www.ithenticate.com/products/plagiaris

m-checker-for-authors-and-researchers/

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Presentation Tools Examples: http://www.posterpresentations.com/ http://www.postergenius.com/cms/index.php

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Publish online

Example:

http://www.ijmi.org/

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Collaboration though

Videoconferencing

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Other resources MOOCs

Examples

https://www.coursera.org/course/researchmethods

http://www.ocw.mit.edu/

http://www.scoop.it/t/mooc-course-sites

https://www.edx.org/

Search Engines & Apps for Researchers

http://www.teachthought.com/technology/100-search-engines-for-

academic-research/

http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=174869&sid=1481864

http://connectedresearchers.com/online-tools-for-researchers/

http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/best-online-research-sites/

http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/vlabs/

http://virtuallabs.stanford.edu/

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Role of institutions Form a Scientific Advisory Committee (including

Ethics)

Institute’s policy for research and ICT

Provide link in Home Page for free online

resources

Conduct awareness programme

Identify faculty with knowledge, skills and attitude

towards ICT

Empower them to take a lead in training other

faculty

Provide training

Buy software like SPSS on behalf of institution 21

Make an institute repository for research

publication & dissertations

Start e-Journal Club

Start e-journal for the institute

Collaborate with other institutions

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Merits & demerits

Search more

Research more

More effective

Disseminate quickly

More accountability

Needs browsing skills –Tech-savvy

Information overload

Reliability & validity of the contents and output

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What can ICT offer for my Research?

24/7 access to materials and

support. Enables more engaging materials to be created for a range of abilities and preferred learning styles.

Encourages the

development of

an independent

research culture.

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Ethics

ICT has a very valuable role to

play in research as long as it

is used appropriately

Supports genuine research

does not detract or distract from

the proposed research work

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What next?

Just Start!

Start small

Collect information

Ask others how they got started

Visit web sites

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Technology is only another tool for productive research 28

Thank you for your attention !

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