A recently published study on distance education utilized HyperRESEARCH for analysis of video source material. Teaching and Learning Against all Odds: A Video-Based Study of Learner-to-Instructor Interaction in International Distance Education by Jean-Marie Muhirwa, published in The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning in the August 2009 issue is available at: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/628/1314.In this mixed-methods approach, a quantitative analysis of video interactions in distance learning was complimented with qualitative analysis using HyperRESEARCH.

Dr. Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, one of the founders of ResearchWare, Inc., is interviewed on Sage's Methodspace web site on Research Methods. A Faculty member at Boston College, Sharlene talks to Patrick Brindle, Research Methods Publisher at SAGE Publications, about feminist research methods. View Part 1of the interview here and view Part 2 here.

The April 2007 issue of the Qualitative Research Journal 2007 (vol. 6, no. 2,  pp. 191-201) contains a "Review of HyperRESEARCH 2.7 for Qualitative Data Analysis and HyperTRANSCRIBE 1.0 for Transcribing Audio and Video Files" by Rosalind Hurworth and Bradley Shrimpton. Among the observation made in the independent review are:

• …can deal with text, graphics, audio and video sources making it an invaluable multimedia research tool…
• …allows researchers from several projects, or the same project, to merge their Data…
• …But most important of all was that it has been designed for ease of use. So we have found it to be much more straightforward to learn and use than some other software available. We found it to be intuitive, so that training, beyond some tutorials in the manual, was not required (and the manual was dispensed with very quickly!). This means that it was possible to focus more on the research rather than on trying to fathom the program…

The informative review also notes HyperRESEARCH's unique and extremely flexible case-based structure, noting:

"One of the interesting aspects of the software is the unusual database structure. Each project is a 'study'. The researcher determines what a case will represent- so it could be an individual, a site, a community, a classroom, a time period or a focus group. Consequently, it is especially suited to cross-case analysis."

ResearchWare's long standing commitment to power and simplicity is recognized in the review comments on the easy of use of the software:

"What HyperRESEARCH has that other programs don't offer is organization by cases and the Hypothesis Tester. Both these features make it worth thinking about as a program to use. It is extremely user-friendly. Even in an earlier version, Weitzman and Miles (1994) noted that, The program was extremely easy to use and get working in. Also the help system actually helps a lot."

Downloadable PDF copies of the full journal article can be obtained through here for a modest fee.

HyperRESEARCH 2.8.3 Released August 11 2009

HyperRESEARCH 2.8.3 is now available on our HyperRESEARCH Download page. This maintenance update adds optimized support for Windows Vista and the Mac OS X "Leopard", and provides a change to the way the program is registered to make it even easier for network administrators to deploy HyperRESEARCH in lab settings.

HyperTRANSCRIBE 1.5.2 Released May 13 2009

ResearchWare's latest version of our easy-to-user transcription program, HyperTRANSCRIBE 1.5, is now available on our HyperTRANSCRIBE Downloads page.