Clarifying and Strengthening Research Questions Exercise

Question One

1. How can an institution effectively create curriculums and courses using open educational resources?
2. What are the guidelines for creating curriculums and courses using open educational resources?
3. What are the useful guidelines for creating instructional programs and courses using open educational resources?
4. What are the useful guidelines for creating effective instructional programs and courses using open educational resources?

Question Two

1. What are the challenges of creating curriculums and courses using open educational resources?
2. What are the challenges of creating effective instructional programs and course using open educational resources?

Question Three

1. How can we measure the quality of the curriculums and courses created from open educational resources?
2. What are appropriate ways to measure the quality of instructional programs and courses created from open educational resources?
3. What are effective ways to measure the quality of instructional programs and courses created from open educational resources?
   

Question Four

1. What kind of solutions do educators need to develop in order to overcome the challenges of creating effective instructional programs and courses using open educational resources?
   

My Research Passion

Passion - "any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate."

Alma 38:12 - "Use boldness, but not overbearance; and also see that ye bridle all your passions, that ye may by fill with love;",


To bride - "to control, hold back, restrain, or curb."

"We tend to think of consecration only as yielding up, when divinely directed, our material possessions. But ultimate consecration is the yielding up of oneself to God. Heart, soul, and mind were the encompassing words of Christ in describing the first commandment, which is constantly, not periodically, operative (see Matt. 22:37). If kept, then our performances will, in turn, be fully consecrated for the lasting welfare of our souls (see 2 Ne. 32:9)...

Such totality involves the submissive converging of feelings, thoughts, words, and deeds, the very opposite of estrangement: "For how knoweth a man the master whom he has not served, and who is a stranger unto him, and is far from the thoughts and intents of his heart?" (Mosiah 5:13)...

We may, for instance, have a specific set of skills which we mistakenly come to think we somehow own. If we continue to cling to those more than to God, we are flinching in the face of the consecrating first commandment. Since God lends us "breath . . . from one moment to another," hyperventilating over these distractions is not recommended! (Mosiah 2:21)."  

Consecrate Thy Performance by Elder Neil A. Maxwell

Now that that has been said, here are my research questions that I'm trying to bridle:

1. How can we provide more financially affordable, but yet still high quality education that is sustainable?
2. How can we disseminate the fun of learning?
3. How can we help students find what they want to become?
4. How can we help students believe their potentials?
   
5. How can we help students become what they want to become?
6. What are the ways to help advanced ESL speakers reach the native level proficiency?
7. What are the ways to create to high quality learning objects with less cost and time?
8. How can we create an effective global community of learning?