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Yesterday I read through Catherine Cronin’s article Openness and Praxis: Exploring the Use of Open Educational Practices in Higher Education. It’s an eye-opener in so many ways. Not only for the content and topic, but for the research methodology that is outlined.

Key points:

  • importance of providing definitions
  • clearly lay out the ‘story’ of the research
  • explore and share theoretical frameworks
  • share the story – context, participants, data collection and analysis, rigor
  • outline the findings in a logical sequence
  • add your voice to the discussion of the findings – include voices from participants (if they add to the story)
  • conclusions wrap the story up with a bow and hint at the next potential stories

4 criteria for evaluating grounded theory studies: credibility, originality, resonance, usefulness

Next steps after reading this article

  1. start an annotated bibliography
  2. start a collection of research articles in a google doc in alpha order with key words to tag them for easy search
  3. look into LU library research links and Zotero for bib reference collection
  4. look into constructivist grounded theory – Charmaz, 2014, 2006; Glaser & Strauss 1967
  5. find out more about ‘theoretical sampling‘ – what is it, how is it applied
  6. find out more about ‘semi structured interview process’ as mentioned by C.Cronin
  7. find out more about constant comparative methods
  8. how were codes determined for this study? how was data collected and where?

I’ll need to book some time with Kim in the LU Ed library to get started with some of these research resources I haven’t used before and will need to know.