Conducting Qualitative Research Of Learning In Online Spaces

Conducting Qualitative Research of Learning with Online Spaces will provide students and researchers with a resource for designing and conducting qualitative research to understand learning and learning engagement in online settings. With recent attention in both the popular press and peer-reviewed research on learning through online engagement, whether formally through online classes and MOOCs or informally within game environments and popular culture discussion boards, a succinct text is needed to guide researchers in designing and conducting empirical studies. While most texts on online research methods focus on social functions in online spaces and the ways that online cultures inform social practices, Hannah R. Gerber, Sandra S. Abrams, Jen Scott Curwood, and Alecia M. Magnifico focus on how online cultures and groups inform formal and informal studies of learning. The text provides researchers with a deeper understanding of how learning takes place within these spaces. Moreover, it provides a framework and rationale for conducting online qualitative research. Each chapter begins with framing questions related to online qualitative research, includes spotlight boxes that discuss research cases pertinent to the chapter, and closes with questions for the reader to consider based upon his or her individual research interests.

• | Author: Hannah R. Gerber, Dr.|Sandra H. Abrams|Alecia M. Magnifico|Jennifer (Jen) L. Scottcurwood
• | Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• | Publication Date: Apr 21, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 1483333841
• | ISBN-13: 9781483333847