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About 20% of the survey respondents who agreed to a follow up interview have completed the email interview I sent out. A few more have said that they will complete it when the exams and final assessments are over at the end of May.
To state the obvious: I have found email interviewing to be different [...]

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Starting to analyse the data from the UHI learner survey and follow up email interviews as well as the data from the email interview/survey completed by online course developers and facilitators sampled through CIDER.
The first task is to pull the information together in order to make meaningful observations and interpretations, and draw conclusions.
Survey monkey has [...]

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The interview question I have sent has proven to be a difficult one for the learners to answer overall. It is not easy for many to think of a specific experience.
So I have decided to change it and send it to new interviewees.
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The new question is:
What kinds of learning materials, activities and delivery [...]

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In order to broaden the range of my research findings and to learn from the experience of e-learning experts outside of the UK, I have invited online course developers and facilitators who are members of the Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research to complete a 3-question survey.
CIDER (http://cider.athabascau.ca) is a resource portal for Canadian and [...]

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At the end of the online survey, respondents were asked to type in their email addresses if they were willing to do a follow up interview by telephone or email. So far 40 people have provided their emails.
(Another five people said yes but unfortunately they didn’t provide their email addresses so I don’t know [...]

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