DEVELOPMENT OF A TRANSFERABLE RESEARCH PORTAL - CREATING AN ON CAMPUS EQUIVALENT FULLY ONLINE RESEARCH COURSE COMPONENT
stephen.mckenzie@monash.edu
Filia.Garivaldis@monash.edu
Angelos Kaissidis-Rodafinos
matthew.mundy@monash.edu
10.4225/03/588fd584d33aa
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/conference_contribution/DEVELOPMENT_OF_A_TRANSFERABLE_RESEARCH_PORTAL_-_CREATING_AN_ON_CAMPUS_EQUIVALENT_FULLY_ONLINE_RESEARCH_COURSE_COMPONENT/4596841
<p>Monash University’s Graduate Diploma in
Psychology – Advanced (GDP-A) is an innovative fully online accredited Fourth
Year Psychology course, which enables its students to undertake further
specialised professional postgraduate training in psychology. The GDP-A
commenced in March 2016 and consists of four course units and four research
units presented in alternating six week teaching periods. </p>
<p>Many challenges are arising in the
development of the GDP-A, which are also opportunities, including the
translation of a traditional on campus research project into a fully online
mode, the ability to scale from a starting number of 80 students to several
hundred students, and the development of clinical and research skills through
virtual means. The scale and scope of the GDP-A and its challenges/
opportunities are unprecedented. </p>
<p>A particularly great challenge and
opportunity for the successful development and implementation of the GDP-A is
the need for a fully online research project that is fully equivalent to an on
campus research project. This will consist of a research thesis based on the
conducting of experiments, surveys, access to or creation of a database and
associated statistical analyses. To meet this challenge/opportunity we are
developing and implementing a Research Portal.</p>
<p>The Research Portal is a unified research
environment that is accessible to GDP-A students, and potentially to others
users, and is presented in the Moodle online Learning Management System (LMS).
The components of the Research Portal are:</p>
<p>• Presentation and selection of innovative and online friendly
research topics.</p>
<p>• Access of and contribution to a course specific and a general
research participants’ pool.</p>
<p>• Access to online experiments, surveys, tests and databases in a
Virtual Lab environment.</p>
<p>• Allocation and tracking of students’ supervisor resource use in
student-supervisor shared electronic notebook/data workbook space. </p>
<p>The Research Portal will provide the GDP-A
course with an unprecedented online research project conducting capacity that
can be successfully transferred across Monash University courses and beyond. </p><p><br></p><p>McKenzie, F. Garivaldis, A. Kaissidis, M. Mundy (2016) DEVELOPING A TRANSFERABLE RESEARCH PORTAL - CREATING AN ON CAMPUS EQUIVALENT FULLY ONLINE RESEARCH COURSE COMPONENT, EDULEARN16 Proceedings, pp. 877-882.<br></p>
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