QSR's had an increasing demand for teaching and self-teaching materials,
to help methods teachers using our software in courses and supplement
the personal or "virtual" teaching by trainers and consultants. Result:
our now carefully revised and illustrated materials are yours for
free. Lorraine has just put up on our website two workshop handbooks, a
thorough introductory handbook and a self-pacing exercise book.
http://www.qsr.com.au/Whatsnew/whatsnew.htm
What's offering?
My Introductory Handbook. (88pp), a straightforward introduction to
each of the tools and processes in NUD*IST4, an overview of the software
and a guide to the way the program works, with explanation of how you
get into a project, and get going, and methodological advice.
Pat Bazeley's Self-Pacing exercises. (64pp) which in incomparable Pat
style sets out the steps for making your own project using the Community
data provided with the NUD*IST4 software. Each stage is explained in
step by step instructions, for each of the main processes of making and
exploring a project.
The site area also has two PowerPoint presentations, for all the people
who've appealed for such things when asked to talk about their work with
the software to colleagues, students etc.
We are now regularly updating our now detailed bibliography on
qualitative computing and references to theses. Please send in
references that should be there and abstracts of any theses using
NUD*IST - other researchers are much helped by these. We've also been
asked to prepare brief student handouts for an undergraduate course and
will add those, and a student discussion area, shortly. Anybody out
there who has teaching materials or presentations and would like to add
them to the variety, do please mail us.
If you are teaching yourself NUD*IST4, teaching others, preparing for a
workshop, just interested, you or your students can download these
introductory teaching materials, print them off, copy them or cite them,
and use them to teach yourself, to prepare for a workshop or follow-up
on it, or to help others. They can be used of course with the
demonstration software, which can also be downloaded for free. The
demonstration software and full software also contain full online Help
describing each process, and a four stage tutorial walking the novice
user through a basic project.
We see these materials as complementary to the personal help from
trainers and consultants worldwide:
http://www.qsr.com.au/Training/T&Cers.htm. (For example, researchers
attending workshops can get materials to prepare in advance. ) The new
materials are also not an alternative to the full User Guide for people
doing real research. Which gives me an opportunity to put out a
reminder: if your institution has a site license, please make sure
users are getting the User Guide! Extra copies can be purchased from QSR
or Scolari.
We will add further materials to this new site resource as requested.
Mail [log in to unmask] to report how these handbooks and handouts work for
your purposes, and what other materials you need for learning or
teaching or helping others learn or teach the software, or just to tell
Lorraine thanks for her webwork.
Sorry for cross-posting, but there's no point in providing such
resources if people don't know they are there. Please if you are on
local or discussion lists where researchers might be helped by this,
would you post a brief message with the info?
Cheers
Lyn
Prof. Lyn Richards,
Research Professor of Qualitative Methodology,
University of Western Sydney, Macarthur,
Adjunct Professor, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology.
Director, Research Services,
Qualitative Solutions and Research.
(email) [log in to unmask]
(Ph) +61 3 9459 1699 (Fax) +61 3 9459 0435
(snail) Box 171, La Trobe University PO, Vic 3083, Australia.
http://www.qsr.com.au
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