International School of Management - ISM

This is the list of Seminars offered for the PhD program in Paris. You can click on each seminar title to see the details.

• Career Counseling in the 21st Century
• Case Study Development & Application
• Research: Designing and Evaluating Qualitative and Quantitative Research
• Teaching and the Human Brain

Career Counseling in the 21st Century
Speaking to the needs of beginning and experienced career counselors alike, this course:

• Considers such topics as : what career counseling is, how to set up a career counseling practice, understanding the client's motivation and what tools to use.
• Discusses the history of ideas in the field since 1900, who invented these ideas and what their present usefulness is.
• Addresses the problems a career counselor runs into, how to deal with these problems and how to deal with one's own need for motivation.

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Case Study Development & Application
This course includes an expanded discussion on the nature of Qualitative research, the different types of qualitative research and how to design a qualitative study including problem formulation and sample selection. All material has been updated in relation to current advances, resources and case studies. An excellent resource for teachers and researchers.

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Research: Designing and Evaluating Qualitative and Quantitative Research
This course offers a balanced, inclusive and integrated overview of the field of educational research. It comprehensively addresses both Quantitative and qualitative approaches to educational research and applies them to the research process. It begins by introducing the general process of research in six steps. Within this context it describes both quantitative and qualitative approaches in detail. It closes with eight research designs-experimental, correlational, survey, grounded theory, ethnography, narrative, mixed method and action research-to implement the process. This course is ideal for all individuals involved with any aspect of research in their professional or academic careers.

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Teaching and the Human Brain
Learn powerful and practical success strategies to boost motivation, attention, understanding, meaning and recall. This course attempts to integrate what we now know about the brain with standard education practices. Candidates will learn how to apply brain-based learning principles to achieve immediate results with methods that follow the way our brains learn best. This course was developed using the most current information from the recent explosion of brain research as it applies to teaching and learning.

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