I have been fortunate recently to be working with some great grad students at SU. This year I am working with Nilay as part of the Syracuse University Future Professoriate Initiative. She is working with me on the course I teach on design-based research this semester. Last week we conducted a focus group as part of the applied research part of the course (conducting design research on the iPhone App, iAdvocate, we have been developing). I came home that evening and thought I should write something about it - Nilay DID!
As part of the hands-on experience of the Design-based Research course, the students in the class conducted a focus group to test the web-app prototype of the an iPhone app that was designed and developed by the course instructor and some of his students. Actually, I have never been a part of a focus group before – neither as a researcher nor even as a participant. As a first timer, I didn’t know what to expect or whether it was going to be a successful one. Although we didn’t have very strict protocols to follow, everything went smooth last night. Total success… We definitely got great feedback from the participants, but that’s not what I want to talk about in this post.
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