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DUT Seminar Series

Duran University of Technology, South Africa organizes research workshop with Dr. Richard Boateng of Digital Learning Africa. The purpose of the research seminar series is to teach how to conduct research in ICT for development and to explore opportunities to collaborate with students and faculty in research. The seminars covered the following themes:

  • Day 1- Research in Technology, Business and Society
  • Day 2 - Meeting Students and Sample Dissertations
  • Day 3 - Getting Started Research
  • Day 4 - IS Theories
  • Day 5 -Theorizing ICT4D
  • Day 6 - Research Methodology
  • Day 7 - Current Issues in Research
  • Day 8 - Conferences
  • Day 9 - Writing A Paper

Session notes and handouts are available on www.dropbox.com. You need login details from DLA editors to access the files. Email editor @ digitallearningafrica.org.

Things I learnt during my PhD

Hello Jewel,

This Journey is Your Journey But It Would Affect A Number of People In And Around Your Life – The Question is, To What Extent would You Let What Affects Them Affect You?

Trust you are doing well. Thanks for stopping by our network to read or find resources. Today I want to share some of the lessons I learn during my PhD. I used to have these pinned on my wall until the week of my viva It may be of help to some who have just began their PhD or are some way through.

  1. You May Rejoice in the Fact that You are Winning Until You Realise that You Are Not Even in the Race!
  2. Cheap Trills and Empty Promises May Look Necessary but has a Price!
  3. A Smile is not Always What it Seems to be; Some Smiles Say I Pity You; Others Say You Remind Me Of Something/Someone; Some Are Indifferent or Acted; and A Few Are Genuine. Which one did you have today, when you met your supervisor?
  4. Success is Sometimes A Concentrated, Consistent Focused Effort!
  5. If You Don’t Know, ASK Where Possible, Don’t Make Assumptions On Things You Don’t Understand!
    You Need to be Critical of your Own Realism, Because it Consists of Your Own Perceptual Experience!
  6. Intellectual Stimulation and Emotional Breaks Sum Up the Dinner of a PhD Student! Too Much of Any of them Makes the Meal Less Delicious!
  7. Find An Escape Environment – This is Where the Sub-conscious Mind Maps Out What You Read!
  8. This Journey is Your Journey But It Would Affect A Number of People In And Around Your Life – The Question is, To What Extent would You Let What Affects Them Affect You?
  9. Teach My Heart How to Endure, My Hands How to Make Wealth and My Mind How to Give Back the Wealth!
  10. Time is the Best Teacher!
  11. During your analysis, remember not to stress too much, give yourself time to think through the concepts and hidden connections between the factors and variables your are studying. Also break the analysis into sections and work on them gradually. Have a small note pad to summarise your thoughts and put down new ideas... which will come up in the most unusual place.. sometimes the bathroom, on the bed, kitchen and squash court!
Drop me an email and let me know what you think... Richard Boateng, PhD editor @ digitallearningafrica.org

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