5911003: C21_Research Methods I (IMIT)

Qualifications

• Students know...
  
  
  • basic methodological approaches and instruments of IS research
  • about factors influencing research decisions
  • strengths and weaknesses of methodological instruments and approaches
  • relevant influential factors in the research process
  • about the consequences of methodological decisions on the research process
• Students are able to...
  
  
  • reflect upon the basic types of research designs
  • design research strategies
  • apply basic research approaches to new problems
  • compare alternative research approaches, identify similarities and differences
  • determine if /to what extent certain models (i.e. approaches) can be implemented in concrete situations
  • choose an appropriate model/approach for the situation under research
• Students learn...
  
  
  • to evaluate and assess ideas and suggestions from their colleagues
  • to support their colleagues to articulate and develop their own ideas and strategies
  • to evaluate and assess their own ideas and approaches
  • that a research design can be based on different point of views
  • new or alternative approaches to solutions and link them to one's own approaches
• Students are able to..
  
  
  • tolerate different points of view
  • use various points of view constructively in order to develop and use new arguments
  • repeat the materials from the lectures evaluate their own learning progress within lectures as well as exercises