Lectures on Methods

• Week 2: Scientific Method
• This is the quantitative method.
• It's the best. Knowledge is most solid.
• It still involves creatitivity.
• Week 8: Qualitative Methods
• There are a range of them.
• They're good for difficult problems.
• They're good for exploratory strategies.
• Week 9: Mixed Methods
• Here you combine qualitative and quantitative methods.
• Can get the benefit of both.
• We talked about cycles of research.
• Week 11: Good Examples of KM Research
• We found good experiments, poor papers, and good papers without evidence.
• It seems that at some point, good researchers can write general papers that have little evidence in them.