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HyperRESEARCH found to be the most Intelligent Qualitative Analysis Tool
In the March 2011 issue of "Expert Systems - The Journal of Knowledge Engineering", authors Olivier L. Georgeon, Alain Mille, Thierry Bellet, Benoit Mathern, Frank E. Ritter present a paper on "Supporting activity modelling from activity traces". The authors used expert systems (artificial intelligence) technology to construct a trace of activity found in some context, for example, car-driving behaviours. Activity trace analysis is a technique sometime used in qualitative research studies, and as, such, the authors conducted a search to see if similar technology had been applied previously. They found that "HyperRESEARCH appears to be the only qualitative data analysis tool that supports the validation of hypothetic theories through rulebased expert system techniques (Hesse-Biber et al., 2001). We find HyperRESEARCH's underlying principles for theory building very similar to ours."
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HyperRESEARCH unveils Benefits of Online Discussion Forums for Teaching Instructional Design
HyperRESEARCH is utilized in qualitative research around the globe. Turkish researchers Bahar Baran (Dokuz Eylul University) and Esra Keles (Karadeniz Technical University) used HyperRESEARCH for the qualitative portion of a mixed methods study of online discussion forums in teaching Instructional Design. Their paper, entitled "Case Study Discussion Experiences of Computer Education and Instructional Technologies Students about Instructional Design on an Asynchronous Environment", is published in The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology (January 2011, volume 10 Issue 1).
Interactive Whiteboards use in Classrooms explored with HyperRESEARCH
Researchers Neil Mercera, Sara Hennessya and Paul Warwicka of the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge relied on HyperRESEARCH for analyzing data supporting their paper, "Using interactive whiteboards to orchestrate classroom dialogue," appearing in the journal of Technology, Pedagogy and Education (Volume 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 195 - 209).
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Instructional Coaching for Professional Leanring explored with HyperRESEARCH
In the December 2010 issue of the American Educational Research Journal (vol. 47, no. 4, 919-963), authors Chrysan Gallucci, Michelle DeVoogt Van Lare, Irene H. Yoon and Beth Boatright present "Instructional Coaching - Building Theory About the Role and Organizational Support for Professional Learning". HyperRESEARCH was utilized to code all the interviews for this study.
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HyperRESEARCH Reveals Marketing Strategies
In an article in the September 14th, 2010 issue of the Hauseman Marketing Research Newsletter, the author details the importance of having a "listening post" for feedback through social media on your marketing strategy. What do you do with all this feedback?