We are happy to report that membership registration for our 2015-2016 CARMA Consortium Webcast Program is now open! Please note the discount for early registration is provided until July 3, 2015. Our scheduled presenters include:
Dr. Leona Aiken, Arizona State University
Generalized Linear Mixed Models
Dr. Curtis LeBaron, Brigham Young University
Video Ethnography
Dr. Mike Pfarrer, University of Georgia
Content Analysis
Dr. Ed Rigdon, Georgia State University
PLS Analysis
Dr. Paul Spector, University of South Florida
Inductive Research Approaches
Dr. Robert Vandenberg, University of Georgia
Latent Change Analysis
Dr. Ernest O'Boyle, University of Iowa
Special Topics With Moderators
Dr. Peer Fiss, University of Southern California
Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Dr. Fred Oswald, Rice University
Statistical Analysis with Big Data
Dr. Zhen Zhang, Arizona State University
Advanced Methods Issues
Below you can find more information about CARMA, our Consortium Webcast Program, membership and its benefits, and registration information. Click here to register.
The price of membership before the Advanced Registration Deadline is $875.00 until July 3, 2015. After this date the price will be $975.00. Please note that membership in this program is at the university level, and different academic units at your university can share the cost of membership.
What Is CARMA?
CARMA, the Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis, is an interdisciplinary consortium devoted to helping faculty, graduate students and professionals learn of current developments in various areas of research methods and statistics. Our focus in research methods is relevant to the management and organizational sciences. CARMA is a non-profit unit at the University of North Dakota, located in Grand Forks, ND. CARMA was established in 1997 by Dr. Larry J. Williams (former Chairperson of the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management and Founding Editor of Organizational Research Methods) and was located at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia from 1997-2009, and was then located at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI from 2010-2014.
What Is the Purpose of the CARMA Consortium Webcast Program?
The main purpose of this Program is to allow faculty and students the opportunity to hear the latest methodological developments relevant to their research. For many faculty and students, learning about research methods is challenging, and watching and listening to an expert who can present current information in an understandable form is a valuable learning aid. Our Webcasts emphasize the substantive application of methodological developments and can supplement the education that occurs in traditional courses. Membership in the Program occurs at the institutional level, and viewing the live Webcasts as a group can be an important community building activity for department faculty and/or graduate students.
We provide training on research methods and data analysis that can benefit the doctoral students and faculty at your institution. This training includes extensive topics in quantitative and qualitative methods. Through our Program, faculty and students from participating universities have access to live Webcasts and an extensive Video Library that address a wide range of topics in research methods used in organizational and social science disciplines.
The 2015-2016 Consortium Webcast Program will include 10 one-hour lectures on advanced topics delivered live (with video and audio components) by leading methodological scholars from organizational studies. The live Webcasts are available for group viewing by an unlimited number of participants from each member institution. Also, the Webcast Program will allow viewers to ask questions, will be supported with relevant PowerPoint slides and background references, and will be made available in our Video Library for unlimited individual viewing throughout the year.
We hope the faculty and students at your school will be interested in our Program planned for the upcoming year. Please forward this email to the faculty and doctoral students in your program so they can learn about the programs CARMA is hosting in the upcoming weeks.
What Does Membership Include?
- The CARMA Consortium Webcast Program is an annual program established to provide university faculty, graduate students, and other researchers with advanced training in research methods and data analysis.
- The price of membership is $975.00. Please note that membership in this program is at the university level, and different academic units at your university can share the cost of membership.
- Access to the CARMA Video Library begins at the time of registration and ends on September 1st, 2016. Membership will be renewed annually.
- Membership includes three access points to ten live webcast lectures and free unlimited individual access to 104 recordings of past lectures in the CARMA video library.
- The membership fee is refundable at any time during the year if a participating university is not satisfied with the program (prorated fee applies).
- CARMA users from 2015-2016 CARMA Consortium Webcast Program member organizations will receive a 50% discount for 2015 and 2016 CARMA Short Courses.
- CARMA users from 2015-2016 CARMA Consortium Webcast Program member organizations will gain access to the group CARMA Members @ LinkedIn, which is used as a discussion board and to network with other members with shared interests.
How Can the CARMA Consortium Webcast Program Advance Faculty and Graduate Students' Research Methods Learning?
Useful for research within a wide variety of disciplines, including management and other business-related disciplines, psychology, sociology, education, nursing, social work and public health among many other disciplines;
Live webcasts as a doctoral program event (i.e. an electronic multimedia colloquium)
Excellent resource for faculty development to help faculty with their research;
Use in class by instructors looking for a way to complement their teaching syllabus interactively;
Use by faculty to raise points of discussion and to engage students in class;
Helps to promote the quality of research;
Recognizes and supports various methodologies and approaches for younger researchers,
doctoral students and faculty members;
Videos can be used to clarify doubts, learn more about issues with certain types of methodologies and to introduce doctoral students to various types of quantitative and qualitative methodologies;
Help doctoral students and faculty in their research and publications; and
Great resource for distance learning programs!
What Has CARMA's Impact Been So Far?
Last year, 171 universities from throughout the United States and abroad participated;
More than 13,579 faculty and students from 59 countries are CARMA Website Users;
More than 825 universities have participated in the CARMA Consortium Webcast Program since 2005;
More than 4,012 faculty and students have made more than 33,507 requests to watch recordings of CARMA Webcast lectures since the fall of 2004; and
More than 2,250 faculty and students from universities throughout the world have attended CARMA Short Courses around the world since the summer of 2004.
How to renew your organization's membership?
- The process through which a university becomes a 2015-2016 CARMA Consortium Webcast Program member begins with an administrator, faculty, or staff person registering as a CARMA Website User and consequently being identified as a Primary Contact. The first person to register a new organization will automatically be the Primary Contact for the organization, so in order to appoint additional contacts, this Primary Contact will need to email CARMA and request that the additional users have their status changed to "Point of Contact" (an organization can have up to 3 points of contact total). Only people that are registered CARMA Website Users AND have been appointed Points of Contact can access the Webcast Program registration process. Click here to register as a website user.
- After the Primary Contact is registered as a CARMA Website User, they will be able to purchase the 2015-2016 Webcast Program. In the "User Area" of the website there is a link to "Purchase Subscription". After clicking on that link, they will be brought to a page where they can select the 2015-2016 Webcast Program from a drop-down menu, and select "continue" to pay for the program.
- The online payment process will accept credit card and eCheck. We accept only one payment in full from an organization, and while we do encourage cost-sharing between units, we expect that these arrangements will be made locally.
- The Primary Contact will complete the registration process, and initiate access to live viewing for their unit. Each contact will be able to initiate an access point for viewing the live webcast and arrange viewing rooms. These three contacts can be from different academic units at your university, but this is not necessary.
I would like to encourage you to initiate discussions with your program, department, school administrators, and/or your library administrators, about having your university register its membership for our Consortium Webcast Program.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us. We hope to hear from you soon, and thanks in advance for sharing this email with colleagues at your school!
Sincerely,
Dr. Larry J. Williams
Director, CARMA
Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis
Professor of Psychology
University of North Dakota
carmamemb@wayne.edu