Considering User Experience When Choosing an AI App

Considering User Experience When Choosing an AI App

Understanding the Role of AI Apps in Research and Decision Making AI apps have emerged as powerful tools that revolutionize research and decision-making processes. These intelligent applications harness the capabilities of artificial intelligence to enhance user experiences, streamline data analysis, and provide valuable insights for informed decision-making. They offer a unique research experience by automating time-consuming and labor-intensive tasks. They can efficiently collect, analyze, and interpret vast amounts of data in a fraction of the time it would take humans…

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Calculators and AI: Technology in Education

Calculators and AI: Technology in Education

The New Frontier ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) text generator, premiered in November 2022. Though AI has been around for many years in the form of, for example, autocorrect and predictive text, among other mundane uses, ChatGPT has advanced the technology considerably by providing an interface where an individual can scour the internet in mere seconds and put together information in new and inventive ways. While several sectors have embraced this technology, education has mostly recoiled in horror, decrying, “How…

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Enhancing Doctoral Work with AI: Improving Grammar, Spelling, Rephrasing, and Idea Generation

Enhancing Doctoral Work with AI: Improving Grammar, Spelling, Rephrasing, and Idea Generation

The Growing Role of AI In recent years, integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into various fields has transformed how those fields conduct their work. For example, algorithms help companies to target audiences with personalized marketing. Arguments for or against this type of targeting of consumers abound; however, it is clear that for businesses, AI has helped to streamline inventory and make it easier for the consumer to find what they need or want (Enholm et al., 2022). AI use is often…

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Why Can’t I Use a Summary Text When Citing My Research Method and Design?

Why Can’t I Use a Summary Text When Citing My Research Method and Design?

I want to take a minute and explain to you why you don’t use a summary text like Creswell as your primary source when discussing your research method and design. Like many other texts, it is an excellent summary text that overviews the entire gamut of research designs, referencing specific authors at the end of sections. This is ideal when learning about research methods and designs. There are books that deal only with qualitative or quantitative design and even specialty…

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Habits Can Be a Good Thing

Habits Can Be a Good Thing

Importance of Good Habits “I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.” ~ Charles Dickens Having good academic habits reduces the chances of making mistakes in your work. Attention to detail is critical in the dissertation process.  Cultivate Good Habits To Replace Bad Ones Car manufacturers responded to government mandates for seatbelts in cars and in turn, most of…

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Dissecting The Literature Review

Dissecting The Literature Review

The foundation of a dissertation is a thorough review of the current literature related to the problem so you can develop a plan for further investigation. Reviewing the literature should start early in doctoral studies, expand during coursework, and continue until you defend the dissertation. All the chapters in the dissertation depend on a solid grasp of the literature. Even writing a problem statement is difficult to do without understanding what is already known about the topic. The literature review…

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Where Is Your Data??

Where Is Your Data??

Here you are! You finally made it to the dissertation phase of your doctoral program! You worked hard to complete all the coursework, did all the assignments, and got good grades. NOW, You are out of the coursework and ready to start your dissertation. Nobody will give you assignments to submit for a grade. No classmates. Only you and the dissertation. Of course, your dissertation Chair will give you feedback but you are expected to develop and support a plan…

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Looking for a way to quickly develop outlines for your writing?

Looking for a way to quickly develop outlines for your writing?

We all have great ideas but sometimes can’t get them on paper. Start With Brainstorming to Get Those Ideas Out! Brainstorming has different meanings for different people. For me, I take the term literally. It is a storm in my brain and storms aren’t really controllable. That meshes with the purpose of brainstorming, to record as many thoughts as possible without any analysis or screening. That comes later. What will I miss if I stop and try to categorize everything…

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