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Episode 1: Knowledge Management and Analytics with Dr. Jay Liebowitz
No full textIf you are interested in Knowledge Management and Analytics, this podcast will be an enlightening experience for you. Join University Libraries as we interview Dr. Jay Liebowitz, a Visiting Professor of the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall and one of most highly ranked in knowledge management strategy. The interview covered, among other topics, Dr. Liebowitz’s newest book: A Research Agenda for Knowledge Management and Analytics
How to get published: An editor’s perspective
No full textUMUC Orkand Chair of Management and Technology, Jay Liebowitz, provided his perspective as an editor of an academic journal on the best ways to effectively work with editors and get published. He covered topics including: o Publish or perish o Why publish? o From the editor's experience o Questions you should ask o Games people play o Perseverance pays off1
How to Get Published: An Editor’s Perspective
Jay Liebowitz, D.Sc.
Orkand Chair of Management and Technology
UMUC
September 20092Publish or Perish?[Robert Day, How to Write & Publish a Scientific Paper, 5thed., 1998]
•A scientific experiment is not complete until the results have been published
•Publication in scientific literature serves as a means to secure knowledge ownership claims and is an efficient vehicle for communicating this knowledge
•“No publications, no funds; no funds, no job”3Why Publish?
•Gain recognition
•Improve society
•Increase the state-of-the-art
•Make evolutionary or even revolutionary changes
•Instill creativity (Labor of Love)
•Get tenure (publish or perish?)4Thomson ISI Master Journal List
•About 9,000 journals
•Top 2 reasons for manuscript rejection:
–Flawed or poorly planned study design
–Lack of detail in methods
[D. Byrne, “Common reasons for rejecting manuscripts for medical journals: a survey of editors and peer reviewers,” Science Editor, 2000]5
ISI Essential Science Indicators Tutorial (http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/tutorials/esi/index.html)6My Editor’s Experience
•Founding and Current Editor-in-Chief, Expert Systems With Applications: An Int. Journal (Elsevier); entering Vol. 37; 1,600 paper downloads per day worldwide last year; 2008 Impact Factor: 2.596
•Associate Editor, Int. Journal of Teaching and Case Studies (Inderscience)
•Former Series Editor, Pergamon Press/Elsevier CS-related journals
•Former Associate Editor, Telematics and Informatics: An Int. Journal (Elsevier)
•Former Founding Editor-in-Chief, Failure & Lessons Learned in IT Management: An Int. Journal (Cognizant Communication Corp.)7
Questions You Should Ask
•Is this journal peer-reviewed?
•Is this a prestigious journal?
•Who is this journal’s audience?
•What is the acceptance rate of the journal?
•What type of papers and research methods are most applicable for this journal?
•How long does it take to get through the review process?8What Do I Look for as a Journal Editor?
•Fits within the aims and scope of the journal
•Follows manuscript guidelines
•Well-written
•The research provides a significant contribution to the existing literature
•Thorough literature review (with most recent references in the field) and appropriate research methods employed
•Detailed analysis, discussions, and conclusions
•Lessons learned, limitations, and future work9The Games People Play
•Sometimes the same manuscripts are submitted to more than one journal at the same time (A BIG “NO-NO”)
•Citation analysis, impact factors, abstract/indexing services are all important, BUT many journals play the game that to be published, you must also cite published papers from that journal (i.e., increases the impact factors/citations cited)10
Journal Article Rejection(Chronicle of Higher Education)
•“I am a full professor at Mediocre Big U. and I have had lots of articles published and lots rejected. I share your pain at the rejection of your article. Recently, I had to have a good cry when an article I sent to Leading Journal in the Fieldwas rejected without review. I mean, you think you’ve got it bad. Think how I feel! My article was not even sent out for review…The solution? After a good cry, I sent the piece out to Leading Journal in Another Subfield, and they have sent it out for review. The moral is to never trust one journal’s opinion.”11Failure Breeds Success(Sir Winston Churchill)
•A pessimist finds the difficulty in opportunities, and the optimist finds the opportunity in difficulties
•The optimist finds the success between the failures12Books
•Labor of love: “Only about 1 in 20 books ever makes a profit, and the shelf life of the average trade book is less than 6 months” (Sean Groom, “How to Get Published,” Washington Lawyer, Dec. 2003)
•IT books also have a limited shelf life (usually 3 years)
•It appears the more technical the book, the more limited the market13
My Heuristics for Books
•Write a detailed book proposal
•Get the book signed off first with a publisher
•Takes me 2 years to single-author a book; 1 year to edit a book
•Refereed journal articles usually take precedence over books
•Have a set day (full day, morning, or afternoon) each week for writing and research (no scheduled meetings or interruptions) 14Possible Journals
•The American Journal of Distance Education (Taylor & Francis)
•Educational Technology & Society (IEEE/et al.)
•Educational Technology Review (AACE)
•International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (Athabasca U.)
•Journal of Distance Education (Canadian Association for Distance Education)
•Myriad of discipline-related journals15Summary
•Sign onto an EBSCO Alert through the Library to get latest articles in your research area sent to you each week
•Do your homework!
•Perseverance will get you far
•Set goals and objectives
•Expand your network
•Think “continuous improvement” (Working paper, conference paper, journal article)
•Don’t be discouraged (think positive
Helpful tips in preparing faculty research grant proposals: An editor's perspective
No full textTo assist with preparing faculty research grant proposals for our next round of grant proposal submissions (the Call for Faculty Research Grant Proposals for Spring 2013 and Summer 2013 will be issued on October 1, 2012), Dr. Liebowitz will present some helpful tips for aiding faculty in developing and writing their faculty research grant proposals. These will include best practices developed from both the experiences of the UMUC Faculty Research Grant Committee, as well as useful heuristics from the experiences of others. Those who are interested in submitting grant proposals for the next round are strongly encouraged to attend the WebEx.1
Helpful Tips in Preparing Faculty Research Grant Proposals: An Editor’s Perspective
Jay Liebowitz, D.Sc.
Orkand Endowed Chair in Management and Technology
Chair of the Faculty Research Grant Committee
University of Maryland University College
[email protected]
Speaking on Behalf of the UMUC Faculty Research Grant Committee
•Faculty Research Grant Committee Members: Bob Goodwin, Cynthia Davis, John Aje, Theo Stone, Denise Nadasen, Jay Liebowitz (Chair)
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My Editor’s Experience
•Founding and Current Editor-in-Chief, Expert Systems With Applications: An Int. Journal (Elsevier); entering Vol. 40; Ranked top-tier journal via most recent 2011 Thomson impact factors; 1.8 million articles downloaded worldwide in 2011; 10-15 manuscripts submitted daily worldwide
•Associate Editor, Int. Journal of Teaching and Case Studies (Inderscience)
•Former Series Editor, Pergamon Press/Elsevier CS-related journals
•Former Associate Editor, Telematics and Informatics: An Int. Journal (Elsevier)
•Former Founding Editor-in-Chief, Failure & Lessons Learned in IT Management: An Int. Journal (Cognizant Communication Corp.) 4
What Do I Look for as a Journal Editor?
•Fits within the aims and scope of the journal
•Follows manuscript guidelines
•Well-written
•The research provides a significant contribution to the existing literature
•Thorough literature review (with most recent references in the field) and appropriate research methods employed
•Detailed analysis, discussions, and conclusions
•Lessons learned, limitations, and future work 5
Thomson ISI Master Journal List
•About 9,000 journals
•Top 2 reasons for manuscript rejection:
–Flawed or poorly planned study design
–Lack of detail in methods Faculty Research Grant Program at UMUC
•Started in 2010 out of the Provost’s Office
•4K for single-PI; $5K for Co-PIs to be split evenly; normally for one semester research work)
•20-30% acceptance rate
•Each round, we typically receive anywhere from 30-60 proposals worldwide
•Open to all UMUC adjunct, NOL, and Collegiate faculty in US and Worldwide
6 Next Round of Faculty Grant Research Proposals for Spring/Summer 2013
•Opens October 2, 2012
•Grant Proposals Due: November 15, 2012
•Notification of Awards: December 20, 2012
•Proposals limited to 3 single-spaced pages, not including the reference list, letter of support from your supervisor, letter/email of permission from Office of Institutional Planning, Research, and Accountability, copy of IRB form submission, and current CV of PI and any co-PIs
7 Proposal
•Title and abstract of the research proposal
•Faculty member’s name and contact info
•Proposed research semester
•Description and goals for proposed research
•Brief literature review and summary of current knowledge in the topic area to be investigated
•Timeline of research tasks
•Expected deliverable outcomes of the research
•Expected benefits to you, your program, and/or to UMUC
•Target publication or conference for disseminating the research results
8 Selection Criteria
•Alignment with areas of interest to UMUC
•Expected impact and benefits of the research to UMUC
•Originality, that is, research that has not already been published
•Sound research design
•Feasibility of the research design for completion during the time proposed and with facilities and/or equipment available
9 Deliverables Expected
•Summary report, of no more than 2 single-spaced pages, to be sent no later than one month after the conclusion of the research semester
•Share results of your research via a UMUC forum (e.g., Lunch & Learn faculty research seminar (F2F or virtual—e.g., WebEx), ShareFair, etc.)
•Include any deliverables (conference/journal papers/presentations, etc.) resulting from your funded research
10 The Research Process pshsresearchunit.webs.com/Modules/BSICR%20Ch%204.pdf Good Applied Research Design: Five Components
1. Goals: Why is your study worth doing? What issues do you want it to clarify,
and what practices and policies do you want it to influence? Why do you want to
conduct this study, and why should we care about the results?
2. Conceptual framework: What do you think is going on with the issues, settings,
or people you plan to study? What theories, beliefs, and prior research findings
will guide or inform your research, and what literature, preliminary studies,
and personal experiences will you draw on for understanding the people or issues
you are studying?
3. Research questions: What, specifically, do you want to learn or understand by
doing this study?
4. Methods: What will you actually do in conducting this study? What
approaches and techniques will you use to collect and analyze your data, and how
do these constitute an integrated strategy?
5. Validity: How might your results and conclusions be wrong? What are the
plausible alternative interpretations and validity threats to these, and how will you
deal with these? How can the data that you have, or that you could potentially collect,
support or challenge your ideas about what’s going on? Why should we believe
your results?
Joseph Maxwell (2008), “Chapter 7: Designing a Qualitative Study”, Applied Research Designs: Sage Publications. http://www.corwin.com/upm-data/23772_Ch7.pdf Sample Observations
•“We've seen a lot of proposals that have had weak research questions (i.e., questions that are not easily answerable or otherwise non-directional, for example: ‘We propose to explore how rubrics can lead to inconsistent grading across sections’ vs. a more directional research question such as ‘Through the use of multiple readers vs. one reader, we propose to identify points of inconsistent scoring in the rubrics across sections.’)”
•“We’ve also seen methodologies that don’t seem to address answering the question, are vague, or seem overly ambitious for the scope of the funding period.”
13 Helpful Tips
•Be sure to cite your research question, the need for your work, and explain your research methodology
•Include a short description of other research you have previously conducted, as well as a brief literature review (including recent sources) from others
•Make sure you have a representative sample size
•We allow for various research methodologies (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, exploratory, etc.)
•Discuss the value of your research to the field and specifically its impact to UMUC
•Highlight how you will disseminate your results
•If using human subjects (UMUC students or others), you must get approval from the Office of Institutional Research
•Be sure that your proposal is well-written, free of grammatical errors, and abides by the page limit
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Failure Breeds Success (Sir Winston Churchill)
•A pessimist finds the difficulty in opportunities, and the optimist finds the opportunity in difficulties
•The optimist finds the success between the failures 16
Summary
•Look at UMUC Research and Scholarship site: http://www.umuc.edu/library/libresearch/
•Sign onto an EBSCO Alert through the Library to get latest articles in your research area sent to you each week
•Do your homework!
•Perseverance will get you far
•Set goals and objectives
•Think “continuous improvement” (Working paper, conference paper, journal article
Integrating reason and intuition: An integrative approach to objectivizing subtle cues
No full textThis chapter shows that decision-making involves interactions between reason and intuition. It explains how several subtle cues, when integrated, lead to a holistic, coherent understanding of what happens when decision makers act in a context that is not conditioned but creates room for natural stimuli. The emergence of subtle cues influenced by internal enablers can be trained by the organization, but these cues may need a long period of time to have an impact and they may be dependent on individual factors, such as personalities, attitudes, worldviews, and background. The term intuition is derived from the Latin intueri, which means “to look upon.” There are various strategies to cope with the subtle cues. A person may be triggered by earlier cues which may be stored somewhere in the memory and which may lead to new cues. The concept of multilevel, dynamic, holistic perception can be described as two concentric circles in an iterative, dynamic interaction process
Training Intuition: Challenges and Opportunities
No full textThis chapter informs the important debate by examining the conceptual work on educating, training and enhancing intuition in laboratory and field settings to identify the most promising methods of intuition development and to suggest future research directions. It identifies educational and training methods with a focus on the ‘brain’ (i.e., the cognitive aspects) and the ‘body’ (i.e., the affective, interoceptive, sensory, somatic and visceral aspects) that show the most promise and suggest designs for future study that have the greatest potential to move the field forward. Every person experiences intuition differently—for example, while some people are sensitive to cognitive feelings, others are more sensitive to bodily feelings. Coaches can also remind managers that they need to have a healthy scepticism towards, as well as an informed awareness of, the use of intuition in decision-making and problem-solving. Intuition is important for decision-making and has the potential to both help and hinder our judgements.No Full Tex
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