"Online learning" is far broader than your experience or understanding of it. You haven't found its limits or possibilities.
And our perception of our experience of online learning is less than our actual experience of it. Online is about being digitally connected. Your on-campus students were already doing online learning.
Online learning is physical. You can design physical tasks for online learners. You can design tasks that don't involve computers.
You can think about (or ask them to think about) all the resources available where they are. You can get them to interact with people and things outside what is part of the institution.
You can use your course as the base camp from which they explore a much wider world.
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Some thoughts for those new to qualitative research in education (clinical or any other).
1. “Qualitative” is massive and diverse. There aren’t any blanket rules that cover all of it, and so what I’m saying here is based on my understanding and approach, not everyone’s.
2. Qualitative's really a type of data, not a method or suite of methods, although the term is often used in that way. You don’t match the dataset (or data collection method) with its associated method, there are many different methods available for any given dataset or project.
3. Most decisions come down to the researcher’s judgement in relation to the purpose, the context, the researcher’s beliefs and skillset. Each decision comes with a requirement to provide a clear rationale for it. All this can be uncomfortable for a while.
First, the positives. It’s useful to think about self-relevance, motivation, how to regulate one’s action and to strive for agency in one’s learning. Now on to the ranty bit… 😀
Knowles claims “children’s learning is fundamentally different from adults’ and .. different educational theories, philosophies and teaching approaches are required. Yet …presents little or no evidence for this bold assertion.” Darbyshire (1993) europepmc.org/article/med/82…
Adult learning theory is based on a deficit model of child learning. Children are not seen as self-motivated and personal-relevance is deemed… irrelevant. This seems plausible, unless you have met and/or been a child.