Research Methodology and Application of ICT in Research

In-depth research work aimed at acquiring full knowledge and presentation in scholarly writing of the concepts, issues, trends in the definition and development of the study area from African and Western perpectives. Major steps in research : Selection of problem, Literature review, Design, Data collection, analysis and interpretation, conclusions. Study of various research designs, Historical, Case studies, Surveys, Experimental, etc Analysis, Surveys and synthesis of conceptual and philosophical foundation Descriptive, Cross sectional, foundations of different disciplines. Identification of research problems and philosophical foundations of diffent disciplines, Identification of research problems and development of research questionsand or hypotheses. Detailed treament of methods of collecting relevant research data and the format for presenting research results (from designing the table of contents to referencing, bililiography and appendix). Data analysis and result presentation in diffent discipllines using appropriate analytical tools. Methods of project/dissertation writing. Application of appropriate advanced ICT tools relevant in every discipline for data gathering, analysis and result presentation. Essentials of Spreadsheets, Internet Technology, and Internet search engines. All registered Masters degree students must attend a solution based interactive workshop to be organised by the School of Postgraduate studies for a practical demonstration and application of the knowlege acquired from the course, conducted by selected experts.