As an educator you will have the privilege, and the responsibility, to share what you've learned. We do this by publishing papers, participating in meetings and presenting posters. Actually, it's a lot of fun.

• Classroom and online research is not just for the PhD crowd. I'm sure many questions will come to you regarding how the material you create is working. Is it advancing or hindering the cause? How can it be improved? And so on.
  • Keep in mind that every educational research project needs to be reviewed and approved by your institution's human subjects or internal review board. All of them. Even the most trivial must be approved first.
  • Here is the link to Indiana University's human subjects site:
    • http://researchadmin.iu.edu/GrantContract/gc-propprep/gcs_propprepsub.html
    • Go to this site and look at some of the requirements.
    • You may want to try their tutorial and take the quiz you'll need to pass should you want to conduct human subjects research.
• Online surveys are easy to do and give valuable information about your TBLs and PBLs.
• Join those groups - local, national, international - that deal with educational field you're interested in.

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