[AISWorld] Six-Week Intensive Research Training in Louisiana, USA

[Adekunle Okunoye]

Six-Week Intensive Research Training in Louisiana, USA 
 
The ICT University will be organizing (in collaboration with the Southern University System) an inaugural Research Boot Camp
for master’s students, doctoral students and junior lecturers from October 17 –
November 28, 2011. A second boot camp will also hold next spring May 14 – June
25, 2012.
 
The ICT-U/SUS Boot Camp will:
 
1.    Provide trainees with the necessary mentoring to develop their thesis/dissertation and journal articles for publication. (This is
extremely important for those working on their doctorates because this six week
intensive study period will assist with significant progress towards completion.) 

2.    Provide trainees access to huge online databases of thousands of journals and e-books.

3.    Provide intensive training on research methods under the one-on-one guidance of senior professors at ICT-U and The Southern University System (Major Areas of research in, E-health, E-Business, E-commerce  E-Agriculture,  E-democracy, Public Policy, Change Management and Project Management and Implementation.

4.    Provide hands-on training in the use of several statistical applications for research, including SPSS and PLS.

5.    Provide training in developing grant proposals to sustain the trainee’s personal and institutional research activities. Additional training will be provided on how universities or higher learning institutions in
developing nations can partner with US and European institutions to acquire grants
to support research and training at their institutions.

6.    Provide E-Learning course development and implementation training to University lecturers.  This part of the training will provide the skills to develop and use e-learning platforms to teach their university courses using distance learning. Free software will be provided to trainees to use
for e-learning at their respective universities.

7.    Organize a three day educational bus tour around the south eastern region of the United States to selected major universities 


Application deadline is August 15,
2011 for the fall Boot Camp, and all inquiries can be addressed to bootcamp at ictuniversity.org.  More information on this can also be obtained at www.ictuniversity.org.
 
Training Eligibility:
Eligible disciplines include ICT, Computer Science, Communications, Health Information Technologies, Business and Management.We request you to share
this information with your staff and/or students. They can apply online at
(www.ictuniveristy.org).  We look forward to reading from you and hope to see you and your colleagues/students in Louisiana.


 
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Adekunle Okunoye
Associate Professor of MIS
Williams College of Business
Xavier University
Cincinnati OH 45207
USA
http://www.xavier.edu/williams/undergraduate/information-systems/index.cfm
+1 513 745 3052
 
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Executive Director, Training and International Scholars Program
International Center for IT and Development(ICITD)
College of Business, TT Allain #321
Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA 70813
USA
Telephone: +1-225-771-5640 or +1225-715-4621

Fax: +1-225-208-1046http://www.icitd.com/


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Executive Secretary
Africa Society for Information and Communication Technology (ASICT)
PO Box 86236
Baton Rouge
LA 70879, USA
Telephone: +1-225-612-4643
Fax: +1-225-612-6994
http://www.asictonline.org

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