Collecting Data

I continue to post more requests for participation..have gotten 24 responses so far. I posted yesterday to the Freelance in ID LinkedIn group.

Yesterday, I interviewed David Pesta and Alice Acker. It was great catching up with David. Having had a lot of experience with him in class, it was an easy entry into practicing my interview. But, knowing him as well as I do, I wonder if this was a good interview to include?

It was funny that Alice and I both are Colby grads! I wonder what that says about our under-grad...also interesting that David is a Hampshire grad. Does this mean that people who have been or who are drawn to liberal arts educations are more open to continuous learning? Isn't that one of the major thrusts of what we learned in undergrad? But, doesn't it also follow that we were drawn to those learning environments because we have a thirst for a broad range of learning?

I also wonder about the method that I am using to gather this information....by posting on LinkedIn groups, doesn't it necessarily mean that I will get a high response from participants that LinkedIn is very important for their learning? Does this mean that I should look for other methods or should I just articulate that in the results? If I distributed this using other methods, that would mean that those participants would say that method was very important....got to make sure that I do say that in my results.

First Set of Responses!

After having posted the SurveyMonkey survey, in the first posting I received 9 responses. Seven of the respondents agreed to be interviewed and I have sent emails to all of them asking for dates to be interviewed. Unfortunately, no responses to those emails...

Pilot Study Survey Posted

After some word-smithing, I finally got the survey questions into SurveyMonkey. I then posted on 4 linkedin groups: eLearningGuild, GIDA, Instructional Design & E-learning, and E-learning 2.0. I twill be interesting to see if anyone responds!

Beginning the Pilot Study

I just received approval from Terry that I can begin data gathering. This is such a big step and I am both excited and nervous. After the "bob" study of last semester when I only had 12 respondents, I am afraid that I won't have enough generalizable data. But, off we go. I'm going to build the SurveyMonkey tomorrow and post the request by Monday.

I have started to compile another round of research to read in order to write  a more comprehensive lit review in June.