| | Greetings from CARMA!
You are receiving this email because we want to assist research oriented international universities by providing educational resources for their faculty and graduate students. These resources include on-line lectures on a wide range of research methods topics for management/organization studies. We offer these lectures through our International Video Library Program, and we want to give your school a free trial membership to this Program. CARMA (Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods & Analysis) is a nonprofit unit at the University of North Dakota that provides valuable programs to further the learning, application and teaching of introductory and advanced levels of quantitative and qualitative research methods. CARMA is truly global, with over 100 universities throughout the world as members of our internet-based programs, and we have offered in-person Short Courses on all continents except Africa and Antarctica. Please visit our website to learn more about CARMA and look through this list to see our current member schools.
At CARMA, we are especially mindful of the challenges related to research methods education for faculty and graduate students at many international universities. There often are relatively few faculty with advanced research methods training available to offer university courses or for informal consultation, and doctoral program enrollments tend to be small and curriculums are typically less structured than in many North America based programs. At the same time, international faculty face increasing pressure to publish their research in top journals that distinguish themselves based on their methodological rigor. And, internationally trained doctoral students face an increasingly competitive job market, in which research methods training can be seen as an important advantage. Simply, CARMA exists to help international universities face this challenge.
With this email, we would like to offer your school a free trial membership in our 2015-2016 CARMA International Video Library Program! Click here to learn more! With this program, the normal registration price for a full year membership is $600, but you can use a special discount code when you register and your school will have a 30-day trial membership at no cost. We want you to experience our CARMA videos, as we believe they can help with your school's research mission. Instructions to register your organization's (for the free trial period) membership can be found below along with specific information about the upcoming year's program. Click here to register, and use the following discount code 70d1-12a4 Our Video Library now consists of over 100 recorded video lectures (audio and video, streamed online, no download necessary!) on various topics, and ten more lectures will be added over the course of the academic year of 2015-2016 (Please see below for list of ten lectures to be added this year). With next year's program we will also be offering on-line Professional Development Workshops and Ask the Experts sessions, and we have an exciting new Research Methods Education Program that includes on-line assessments.
| | How to register for your 30-day trial: | | - To register your university for membership, you must be a registered CARMA Website User. To create an account and become a CARMA Website User, please click here.
- Log into your CARMA account. You are automatically brought to our "User Area".
- On the right side, select "Purchase Subscription".
- Select the "Video Library Free Trial (Promo Code Required)" option from the drop-down menu and enter the discount code 70d1-12a4
- Select continue and your registration is complete!
| | How can the CARMA International Video Library Program advance faculty and graduate students' research methods learning? | | - Useful for research within a wide variety of disciplines , including management and other business related disciplines, psychology, sociology, education, nursing, social work and public health among many other disciplines
- Excellent resource for faculty development to help faculty with their research
- Use in class by instructors looking for a way to compliment their teaching syllabus interactively
- Recorded lectures are great for use by faculty to raise points of discussion and to engage students in class
- Helps to promote the quality of research
- Recognizes and supports various methodologies and approaches for younger researchers, doctoral students and faculty members
- Videos can be used to clarify doubts, learn more about issues with certain types of methodologies and to introduce doctoral students to various types of quantitative and qualitative methodologies
- Help doctoral students and faculty in their research and publications in the top journals
- Great resource for distance learning programs!
| What Does Membership Include? | | - Unlimited access to over 100 hours of recorded lectures in our Video Library, which is available to all faculty and students (at no charge to them as individuals);
- Access to 10 additional recorded lectures in 2015-2016
- Opportunity to participate in on-line Professional Development Workshops and Ask the Experts Sessions.
- A 50% discount on our Short Courses (held in-person in the USA and at international locations)
- Complete access to CARMA's Research Methods Education Program (RMEP).
| 2015-2016 CARMA Webcast Presenters & Topics | |
| | September 18, 2015: 12:00 noon ET
| Dr. Mike Pfarrer, University of Georgia: Content Analysis
| October 9 2015: 12:00 noon ET
| Dr. Ed Rigdon, Georgia State University: Partial Least Squares Modeling: Past and Future
| October 9 2015: 1:15 pm ET
| Dr. Fred Oswald, Rice University: Statistical Analysis with Big Data
| November 6 2015: 12:00 noon ET
| Dr. Paul Spector, University of South Florida: Inductive Research Approaches
| November 6 2015: 1:15 pm ET
| Dr. Ernest O'Boyle, University of Iowa: Special Topics With Moderators
| January 29 2016: 12:00 noon ET
| Dr. Curtis LeBaron, Brigham Young University: Video Ethnography
| February 26 2016: 12:00 noon ET
| Dr. Peer Fiss, University of Southern California: Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis
| February 26 2016: 1:15 PM ET
| Dr. Zhen Zhang, Arizona State University: Multilevel Mediation
| April 8 2016: 12:00 noon ET
| Dr. Leona Aiken, Arizona State University: Generalized Linear Mixed Models
| April 8 2016: 1:15 pm ET
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| We hope to welcome you soon into the 2015-2016 CARMA International Video Library Program! Thank you, Dr. Larry J. Williams, CARMA Director, Professor of Psychology Jessica Jensen, CARMA Assistant Director Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods & Analysis (CARMA)
und.carma@und.edu
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