The Educational Research Methods group is a SIG of AaeE. 

We encourage everyone to get involved in discussion on this page and through our sessions at the annual AaeE conference.

Check the AaeE conference page for the papers from the 2008 conference.

At the 2009 conference in Adelaide, we're planning to run ERM sessions around the theme of Multidisciplinarity. We're hoping to have a workshop, an invited paper session and lots of papers from members. We're also planning an ERM breakfast. Watch the conference pages for further details - and start planning your papers.

Information on Useful Research Methods in Engineering Education:

• Phenomenography
• Ethnographic research
• Observational methods

Here you can see the notes from a workshop held in Toowoomba recently. The participants asked for a glossary so I'm putting up one I've used with engineering postgards in the past. Please feel free to add to or contradict these offerings!

If you'd like to improve your knowledge of a particular research method in intensive short courses, check out the ACSPRI pages.  They run summer schools in Canberra and winter schools in Queensland with occasional special workshops and conferences. Most Australian universities are members of the consortium.

You may also be interested in what's going on in Europe: http://euro-eng-ed-research.pbwiki.com/

You'll likely need to request access.

The ASEE's ERM group is at: http://www.asee.org/activities/organizations/divisions/index.cfm#Educational