Challenges Faced by Researchers While Conducting Research Online

The assignment highlights the importance of having appropriate skills for conducting online research and the various challenges that researchers face in this process. It covers topics such as plagiarism, sharing information, and intellectual property rights.

Integrated Professional Skills
in the Digital Age

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Comparing and contrasting two different web conferencing providers ......................................1
Skills required to conduct research online and challenges faced.................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Information and communication technology (ICT) can be referred as all types of
technologies which can be used to handle broadcast media, telecommunications, audiovisual
processing, transmission systems, intelligent building management systems and network based
monitoring and controlling functions (Lee, Son and Kim, 2016). There are various components
which come under the list of ICT such as telephones, computers, smart phones, robots, digital
TVs, etc. In the modern world popularity of ICT has grown as it has provided benefits for
businesses and for the public too. This is mainly due to wide spread of information technologies
and internet across the world.
MAIN BODY
Comparing and contrasting two different web conferencing providers
Web conferencing may be referred as an online service where businessmen can hold live
meetings, presentations, conferencing as well as trainings through internet mainly through
IP/TCP connections. There are different ways of getting connected to video conferencing by
smart phones, computers etc. Web conferencing has saved time and money for the people who
meet frequently to discuss business related issues now people can meet online to discuss the
same issue via video conferencing. There are various web conferencing services provides which
can be used by businessmen but the most popular web conferencing providers are Microsoft
Skype for business and ezTalks (Wainer, Pickard and Ingersoll, 2017). Both apps are web
conferencing providers which allows many people to meet in one single meeting and can be used
in both Andriod and in iPhone. Both apps can be used by small, medium and large sized
business owners.
Microsoft Skype is a web conferencing service provider app which support 250 people in
one meeting which means that it perfect for large organisations with large number of employees.
This app gets connected to phone, tablet, PC or Mac and supports high quality audio and video
calls. It is considered as the best web conferencing app for businessmen because it supports up to
50 GB of emails and also 1 TB space for businessmen to store their files. Microsoft business
works with other Microsoft office tool which provide better experience for businessmen.
ezTaks talks have got a good number of video collaborative tools which make it best
within the web conferencing industry. It has hold the people up to 100 per meeting for unlimited
length. It is high quality audio and HD video conferencing app with instant screen and file
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sharing features. It has also got the feature of white board recording and playback options (Isaac,
2015). Its features also includes meeting arrangements, private chat, management and control
features.
Both the apps have got the best suitability for businesses as they provide opportunities for
the businessmen to hold meetings with single click. These apps also allows businessmen to
conduct meeting which are at different locations and does not require coming in contact. They
also allow businessmen to send important documents and data sharing. So, these helps in saving
time and money for businessmen across the world. Also, businessmen can provide training
sessions which is the best suitability for the businesses in present scenario. These apps also
allows the companies to combine the advantages of phone conversations and those of live video
feeds. Using these apps businessmen can make access to internet and can also make access to
important files on the phone or desktop and can share them instantly. Also, it has increased the
flexibility within the business as some people can work from home which has increased the
productivity of organisation and can also play and important role in cutting down office cost.
There are also various features which are available in these apps which can set impression on
clients during meeting like can make presentations more attractive, can switch to private chats,
instant sharing of data or information which can help the companies in cracking important deals.
Also, with the help these apps companies can hold multiparty meetings at the same time
and does not to meet in real time which is the best suitability of these apps for the companies.
Also, employee which are situated in remote locations can set meet at the desired times with the
help of these web conferencing apps. Companies can avail these apps to get connected to the
staff on regular basis which will help the companies to make businesses more transparent. Also,
with the help of these apps owner of the business can hire the best talent from any location of the
world (Soltanian and et.al., 2018). This is also the one of the best suitability of these apps for
businesses of present world where the companies are operation in different locations within the
country and outside the country as well. Also, these apps offer excellent service to businessmen
where they can conduct unlimited meeting and can get the best quality audio and video as well as
mobile access. So, businessmen can conduct conferences on the go which will save time for the
businessmen and there is no need for hiring big halls or booking hotel rooms etc which will
prove to be cost saving for the companies. So, it brings much more benefits and advantages to
companies which can increase the business efficiency of the organisations across the world.
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Skills required to conduct research online and challenges faced
Conducting research online is a challenging task and it requires high skills in order to
conduct the online research, some important skills required are mentioned below:
1.Checking sources
Skill: Evaluation of the information found within the source on the basis of validity,
appropriateness, accuracy, its importance and its cultural and social context.
Challenge: It is difficult to believe that every thing present online is true as most of the contents
online is vague and it is a challenging task to identify the real and authentic source for the
information which is to be gathered by a researcher online (Alismail and McGuire, 2015).
2. Ask good research questions
Skills: A researcher should be able to develop and refine the search quires in order to get better
search results.
Challenge: Sometime a researcher find it challenging entering proper search item, and they get
different results from the research which are not related to their research.
3. Going beyond the surface
Skill: It is required for a researcher to display enduringness while pursuing in depth online
information in order to gain a broad perspective of research.
Challenge: Whenever a researcher starts a research online he/she normally stops at first research
and try to take the content for one or two web pages (Five Tips To Improve Your Internet
Research Skills, 2018). This will limit their research and may decrease the quality of their
research. Displaying persistence is a challenging task for researcher while conducting online
research.
4. Being patient
Skill: Researcher should be patient is searching online information if a researcher in unable to
get proper content from the research.
Challenge: At present researchers want the information on demand, they want to get the online
information within single query. Developing patience on internet is a challenging task in order to
get proper results for their queries. Also, some researchers get frustrated if they don't get the
proper content for their queries. So, develop the level of patience is a one of major challenges
which are faced by the researchers while conducting a research online.
5. Respecting Ownership
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Skill: Researcher should know how to respect intellectual property rights of producers and
creators.
Challenge: Researchers don't see piracy as stealing, and they keep on taking the contents
without considering the rights of producers and creators, and they see that piracy is morally
accepted (Bell, Bryman and Harley, 2018). They try to download the content from online
without paying for it as they want to get the contents free of cost as they believe that every thing
available free online. It is also the challenge which are faced by researchers while conducting
research online.
6. Using networks
Skill: Researcher should be able to make use of social networks and other information tools in
order to gather and share information online.
Challenge: Some researchers don't understand difference between plagiarising and sharing of
information. Some researchers copy the same content from online and also take most of the
materials from the cribbed sources like Wikipedia, Facebook and Ask.com. Researchers find it
easy to get information from these sites as they want to waste time in searching for material for
longer time. It is also one of the major challenge which is faced by researcher while conducting
research online.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the above report that ICT plays an important role in current
business world and it has helped in making business smooth and easy. A company can make use
of different web conferencing providers in order to conduct online meeting. Present report also
concludes that it web conferencing brought various benefits to the business and there are various
features associated by using web conferencing apps. It can also be concluded from the above
report that researcher should possess appropriate skills for conducting online research and also
they face various challenges while conducting a research online.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Alismail, H. A. and McGuire, P., 2015. 21st Century Standards and Curriculum: Current
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Bell, E., Bryman, A. and Harley, B., 2018. Business research methods. Oxford university press.
Isaac, K., 2015. Implementing Mconf web conferencing at the South African National Research
and Education Network.
Lee, A. R., Son, S. M. and Kim, K. K., 2016. Information and communication technology
overload and social networking service fatigue: A stress perspective. Computers in
Human Behavior. 55. pp.51-61.
Soltanian, A and et.al., 2018. A cloud-based architecture for multimedia conferencing service
provisioning. IEEE Access. 6 pp.9792-9806.
Wainer, A. L., Pickard, K. and Ingersoll, B. R., 2017. Using web-based instruction, brief
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Five Tips To Improve Your Internet Research Skills. 2018. [Online]. Available through :
<https://www.legalsecretaryjournal.com/five_tips_to_improve_your_internet_research_
skills>.
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