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Online Journal keeping track of the ideas and development of my current research.

Entries Tagged as 'methods'

Email Questionnaire for Online Facilitators

April 20th, 2006 · Comments Off

Here is a copy of the email survey request I am sending out to the online learning community:
I would very much appreciate if you would answer the 3 questions below with as much or as little information as you wish.
The aim of this 3-question email questionnaire is to find out from your experience: the combination [...]

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Tags: methodology · methods · survey

Email interviews designed

April 6th, 2006 · Comments Off

I have drafted two email interview schedules which have ten questions. 1) Follow up interview for learners who respond to the survey; and 2) Interview for experienced online facilitators and developers outside of UHI. I will pilot these shortly.

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Tags: methods · online learning

Potential Learner Survey Fatigue

April 5th, 2006 · Comments Off

I have heard that UHI learners have been asked to complete a lot of online surveys (developed with survey monkey) so I am concerned that I may not get many responses to yet another survey from their point of view. So I have been rethinking my tactics.
What I am thinking now is to offer every [...]

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Tags: methodology · methods

Designing the learner survey to assess preferences

March 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off

Currently, I am trying to come up with some suitable questions to include in the online survey. It’s not an easy task but I am certainly becoming clearer on the focus of my research by reading some of the literature to do with online learning and thinking through what it is exactly that I want to know.
Basically, I am looking [...]

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Tags: methods · online learning

Focus group completed

March 15th, 2006 · Comments Off

I’ve conducted a focus group with 6 learners currently doing a totally online course in order to look at some of the broad issues of networked learning and to help me to develop questions for the online survey. Themes covered were: campus or home-based; how do they know they have learned something; what do they like and dislike; printing [...]

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Tags: findings · methods · online learning