Useful for faculty members and research scholars.

1. APPLICATION OF ICT IN
RESEARCH
Prof. Ramakanta Mohalik
Regional Institute of Education,
Bhubaneswar
rkmohalik@riebbs.ac.in

2. What is ICT
• ICT refers to technologies that provide access
to information through telecommunications.
• It includes the Internet, wireless networks,
cell phones, and other communication
mediums.
• All devices, networking components,
applications and systems that combined allow
people and organizations to interact in the
digital world.

3. ICT in Education
• ICT for Learning (As a learner)
• ICT for Teaching (As a teacher)
• ICT for Professional Development
(Professional/Teacher/Teacher Educator)
• ICT for School Governance (School/Principal)
• ICT for Research

4. Purpose of ICT Use in Research
• To ease the knowledge-gating process and to
enhance resource development.
• To make research economical in time and
effort
• To improve cognitive skills of researchers
• To help in collecting, analyzing and creating
knowledge.

5. ICT Helps Researcher …………
• Identify appropriate literature sources
• Search appropriate content
• Research effectively
• Manage information/resource materials
• Use the information to extend and communicate knowledge across
subject fields
• Search up to ten databases and electronic resources simultaneously
• Receive results in a common format
• Link to individual databases for more specialised searching
• Select favourite resources and e-journals,
• Save searches and records,
• And set up email alerts.

6. ICT can be Used in Three Stages
• Applications of ICT in pre-data analysis
• Applications of ICT in data analysis
• Applications of ICT in post-data analysis

7. ICT in Pre-data Analysis
• Literature Search, Article Availability, Thesis
and Dissertation Availability
• Content Search
• Literature Tracking
• Writing Research Proposal
• Tool Development
• Sample Selection
• Data Collection

8. Literature Search
• ShodhGanga: Indian theses repository where you can search and
download the theses.
• Google Scholar: Provides a way to broadly search for scholarly
literature across disciplines and sources.
• Microsoft Academic Search: Find information about academic
papers, authors, conferences, journals, and organizations from
multiple sources.
• Mendeley: A unique platform comprising a social network,
reference manager, article visualization tools.
• SSRN: Open access online repository of scholarly research and
related materials in social sciences.
• Academia:
• ResearchGate:
• Jstore.com
• Ndtl.com
• Online library( inflibnet.ac.in)
• ndl.iitkgp.ac.in

9. Content Search
• Researchers can utilize the softcopy literature’s
search or find function (also called content
search) to search for specific keywords or
phrases.
• Content search enables a researcher to evaluate
quickly whether a particular article or thesis is
worthy for deeper review.
• Content search also helps a qualitative
researcher to count the frequency of certain
keywords appears in an interviewed transcript
more effectively.

10. Literature Tracking
• In the past, researchers have to sort, classify and store
all their literature or artefacts that they had reviewed
into computer folders or physical folders/place holders.
Doing these manually can be daunting tasks.
• With the advancement of ICT, now using software
like Mendeley which can help manage, share and
discover the literature contents and contacts that they
had reviewed.
• Using software like Mendeley to track a researcher’s
literature is saving time and effort as well as capable to
manage lots of literature that the researcher was not
possible in the past.

11. Data Collection
• Tool Development
• Data can be collected via online, web-based or
Internet survey.
• Not only an online survey can be administered
more effectively, but the data collected in its
original format can also be input directly into the
statistical software.
• Important Data Collection Application of ICT:
• Google Forms
• SurveyMonkey

12. ICT in Data Analysis-Quantitative
• Statistical Package for Social Science / SPSS
• R (R Foundation for Statistical Computing)
• MATLAB (The Mathworks)
• Microsoft Excel
• SAS (Statistical Analysis Software)
• GraphPad Prism
• Minitab
• Systat

13. ICT in Data Analysis-Qualitative
• NVivo
• ATLAS.ti
• MAXQDA
• SPSS Text Analytics
• Transana can be used for video transcribing in
certain qualitative research

14. ICT in Post-Data Analysis
• References and Bibliography Compilation
• DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
• Article and Thesis / Dissertation’s Discussion
among Researchers, Supervisors, Supervisees
etc.
• Plagiarism Detection
• Journal Manuscripts Submission

15. References/Bibliography
• EndNote
• Zotero
• Mendely

16. Article and Thesis Discussion
• Academia.edu
• ResearchGate

17. Plagiarism Detection
• Grammarly
• Article Checker
• Turnitin
• DupliChecker
• Urkund

18. Manuscript Submission
• email
• E-journal platforms

19. Think on Mobile as Research Tool