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Action Research in IT Studies (2014)

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    General

    Welcome to Action Research in IT Studies

    Description: The course will be directed at PhD students engaging in close collaboration with the organisations (private companies or public agencies). The course will cover:
    • Action research: Why? What?
    • Organising AR projects and enacting the action-learning cycles
    • Managing AR projects
    • Data collection and documentation
    • Data analysis
    • Genres of writing up AR studies
    • Identifying and presenting contributions from AR
    • The utilisation of framework for action and empirical research
    • Linkages with engaged scholarship, case study research, and design science research
    • The insider role
    This course is particularly relevant for industrial PhD studies.
    Format: Action learning where the participants in small groups work on designing an action research study.
    Prerequisites: The course is specifically addressing PhD students in the application of IT, information systems, and related subjects. PhD students working in other subjects are welcome, but should know that all the example material is drawn from IT studies.
    Learning objectives: Know how to organise, conduct, and report from action research.

    Organizer: Peter Axel Nielsen, professor, pan@cs.aau.dk

    Lecturers: Peter Axel Nielsen, Aalborg University

    ECTS: 2

    Time: 11th-12th November 2014, starting 9am on the 11th and ending 4:30pm on the 12th.

    Place: Building Cassiopeia, Selma Lagerlöfs Vej 300, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg.

    Room: 0.2.90 (first floor)

    Number of seats: 20

    Deadline:  21 October 2014 (now closed)


    Important information concerning PhD courses
    We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 5,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately three months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.

  • Readings

    Please read before the course starts. Reading package 1 and 2 are required readings, and other packages are supplementary.

  • Schedule

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    Building Cassiopeia, Selma Lagerlöfs Vej 300, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg. Room 0.2.90 (first floor).

    Day 1 - Tuesday 11th November

    09:00-09:45 Introduction and participant presentation (slides)

    09:45-11:00 Action research fundamentals

    11:15-12:15 The role of the action researchers (outsider, insider), competence, and credibility

    13:00-14:30 Intervene into the problem situation: The problem-solving activities and the use of F and M

    14:45-16:00 Group assignment

    16:15-17:00 Engaged scholarship and design (science) research 

    Day 2 - Wednesday 12th November

    09:00-10:30 Declare framework and criteria

    10:30-12:00 Group assignment

    13:00-14:30 Document and record the acting and thinking: interviews, observations, diaries, and debriefings

    15:00-16:15 Eliciting findings and contributions: Writing it up and the genres of action research

    16:15-16:30 Closing and home assignment 

    (WiFi Eduroam - otherwise AAU-1-DAY passwd 11.11. measure11process, 12.11. earth21pin.)

  • Action research protocol

  • Assignments

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