Re: [TOS] What's the most helpful literature review I can do for y'all?

>> I'm planning on doing my research on the effects of open
>>> source community participation on undergraduate student learning
>
> Are you thinking of a meta-analysis? quantitative? qualitative? mixed
> methods?

Honestly, I'm not sure yet; "the effects... on student learning" is
awfully broad and I'm not sure what I mean by that yet, and I've only
been in grad school for a month so I barely know how to help with
research in this area, let alone design it. :)

That having been said, it's likely to be mixed methods; I've found
myself drawn towards qualitative (particularly ethnographic) research
since 2007 when I got to take Susan Silbey's qualitative methods class
at MIT, but there's a *lot* of good quantitative stuff to mine in the
FOSS world.

--Mel
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