söndag 18 november 2012

Theme 4, Reflections before


   We live in the information age of human civilization. Therefore, it is popular and promising the sphere of information activity today. Information activities allow collection, storage, retrieval, processing and dissemination of information. It also forms organizational resources and provides access to them. Today information has a material value. Information can be bought and sold in the information market.
  Information market is a set of relationships to provide information services. Information market needs daily updates, so at the moment the sphere of information activities’ development is increasing continuously. Information searching methods grow continuously.It is necessary for the processing and systematization of quality information. Almost every month there are new and improved methods of searching, processing and dissemination.
  One of the research areas, of data collection and processing is online learning. There are complex issues in these studies that are being investigated. One of the studies’ areas is the essence of the emotion concept which will explore all the actions and reasons of things. Impact on certain emotions in the learning environment has yet to be explored. Education face to face is a battle between emotion and cognition with the brain in the middle. The three elements of online learning are social presence, teaching presence, cognitive presence. Central and organizing elements in the learning process are intention, assistance and direction of cognitive and social processes. Emotions are a part of the learning environment. The positive emotions lead to positive results, negative emotions lead to negative consequences in the learning process. Stress and anger hinder learning and lead to the adoption of wrong decisions. Excessive emotions and their absence have influence to the learning process. Emotion is an experience that is important in the online environment and it helps to move the knowledge to consciousness.
   We have already got to know about mixed research and quantitative methods of search and research of information. Mixed research is a research with philosophical propositions’ leading and methods to collect and analyse data. There are several stages of the mixed research data processing: analysis of data mapping, data transformation, data correlation, data consolidation, data comparison and integration of data. Mixed research combines with the optimal properties for online learning management.
   Qualitative and quantitative methods are mixed in many phases of mixed research both for one and for several studies. Determining of the issue types led to design type, sample size, selection of tests, and type of instrument and method of data analysis. For the mixed research should be selected optimal sample size and studies scheme for conclusions efficiency.
  This research method involves development of research methods and principles to improve the quantity and quality of research. This will increase the accuracy and quality of online learning. The construction of mixed research is more complex than qualitative research and quantitative research individually.

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