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Online Education -- Research Method Response
Initial Research Methodology
I relied exclusively on online sources to conduct the research for this project. The first source that I consulted was the database archived on the website maintained by the former print magazine, U.S. News & World Report that ceased its hardcopy print publication last year. I selected that as the starting point for my research because I was aware of the long-term annual series of "Best Colleges in the U.S." And "Best Graduate Schools in the U.S." published by the magazine. It occurred to me that, in the Internet age and with the continually-increasing popularity of online education programs, the magazine would probably have also evaluated the various online options to a traditional "brick-and-mortar" institution of higher learning.
Because the U.S. News & World Report article (Clark, 2009) mentioned the importance of technological systems to...
Luckily, that article proved to be directly relevant to my research because it detailed the manner and degree to which both the quality and profitability of online programs of higher education depend directly on the design and functional capabilities of the computer technologies and systems used to maintain those types of programs.
Reviewing the results of that same search, I noticed the Journal of the Association Medical Colleges article (Ruiz, Mintzer, & Leipzig, 2006) and thought that it might be helpful to the analysis to consider how the concept of online education has been incorporated into medical education programs. Because that article is six years old, I would not have relied on it for details about technical…
There were three reasons that caused me to reject search results: first, those that were not published by professional or peer-reviewed, or mainstream news sources; second, those that were published by insufficiently scholarly sources (such as aol articles without author attribution); and third, those that were published by scholarly sources but that required a fee to view the articles in full text format.
Unanticipated Complications
During my research, I encountered two additional complications or limitations. Specifically, I used the same search terms as in my original search ("online" and "education" and "technology") on Google Scholar. That search yielded many relevant titles but almost all of those that were recent enough to be reliable were only available in abstract format and required a fee for the full text. One potentially useful source was a Google Books version of the book Distance Education: A Systems View of Online Learning (Moore & Kearsley, 2011) but I rejected it because only 83 pages (of 361) were available online and because the online book format is difficult to navigate efficiently. Finally, there were apparently several potentially useful sources published by
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