Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Organizing my Literature


At first, this post was supposed to be an outline of my literature, but I'm now realizing this is huge.  I have a ton of literature, but I don't really know how/where to use it, because:
  1. I have my documents stored in Zotero, but not my NOTES for those documents.
  2. I have another Excel document that I made to appease a committee member with different categories, with some notes, but it's messy because I've changed my topic a lot of times.  
  3. Some articles have elements of different categories, but that doesn't show in my Excel document.  
  4. If I had done this in a uniform way from the beginning, this would be a lot easier.   Of course, I did try to do that, but it didn't work because of needs changing through the project, and different bodies of literature explored through the course of finding the right topic.
Time for a lit. review haircut--evening everything all out.  How do do it???  And what to do with my other files??

Option 1.
  1. Determinism vs. Agency debate
    1. Main premises of each
      1. @!People have control over their life choices
      2. @agency
    2. Critiques on each 
      1.  
  2. LAEF and its Agentic components
    1. Learner antecedent familiarity
    2. Learner encounter with Unfamiliarity
    3. Learner exploration
  3. Technology Adoption
  4. Technology Adoption as a(n informal?) Learning Experience
    1. What they learn
    2. Adult Learning/Faculty Professional Development
  5. Technology Adoption as an Agentic Learning Experience
  6. Learning Suite 
    1. Ways to learn
      1. online - learner control
      2. formal training/face-to-face

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