Notes: Alt-J 15:3

"What constitutes good research in e-learning - are there lessons we can learn from the Research Assessment Excercise?"

-The RAE is used to review HE Research about every 5 years.
-There are 67 units of assessment. The most important are publications.
-4 Stars would denote world leading research and 1 would be nationally recognised research.
-There are some ways of working out if research is worth publishing. For example:
--Is it an important or topical area?
--Will it be cited a lot?
--Does it define an area?
--Will it have impact on decision makers?
--Does it develop a new theory or model?
--Does it clarify an established problem?
-Elearning is multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary and doesn't neatly fit in the RAE.

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What does this mean for me?

If I want to try and publish work we've done, I'll probably get institutional support.

I'll do well to look at books like Contemporary Perspectives in E-learning Research to get a better idea of how to approach the area of elearning research.

Identify which areas that I'm looking at and compare with the list of things that make research worth publishing.