COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of strategic planning for research and studies. It covers the nature of strategic planning and the building blocks of planning in an operational context; the must do things in planning a research; the research process and research design; the research problem and ontological and epistemological research perspectives; the quantitative and qualitative research; and the methods of methodology. 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the skills to apply critical thinking; the bias, variables and their types; the formulation of hypothesis and sampling; the tools of data collection and data analysis; the interpretation of data; the search engines and library services; reading with purpose; reviewing literature and annotated bibliography; performing coding, research methods, descriptive or survey method, and experimental method; and reviewing research proposal and report.