Research Poster

Research posters are an important and common method for disseminating your research; particularly at conferences. Year 2 of the Professional doctorate culminates in (not only assignment 6) but producing a research poster and then a two week long asynchronous presentation where we ask and answer questions on our research posters before voting for our favourite.

Assignment Feedback and SPSS

Well, I received my feedback from assignment 5. It was pretty good! A few things still to think about and nail down (particularly my drifting in talking about retention, drop-out, disengagement to one more clear line of action and thought). And my inability to spell “realism”. Ah well. Overall though, it was an improvement from

Conference abstract

There’s a conference coming up in May for Post Graduate Research students in my faculty – the theme is fun and creativity (which just screams learning analytics doesn’t it?). You can submit a poster, do a 15 minute presentation, do a 3 minute theses (I found this really effective at the residential despite my initial

Submitting Assignment 5

I had had a meeting with my supervisors (I have two now! The second is a Toastmaster and also specialises in machine learning. Pretty good fit right?!) who gave me some great feedback. Essentially, the assignment was “fine” (it’s only getting marked by them anyway) but they had some pointers for me. I had a

Struggling to write – Assignment 5

I had finished all the module work. Gym classes on Sunday were cancelled. I had booked a meeting with my supervisory team by which time I was going to present them with a draft. I had Mendeley open and my year 2 notes. I was ready to start writing assignment 5! . . . Hmmm.