Scheduled Seminar Discussions

Hi Janet.

I'm David Porter, Executive Director at BCcampus.ca.  I've been looking forward to this seminar since I saw it announced back in Fall 2011.  The timing is perfect for me because I'm about to conduct some research related instructor practices associated with the selection, adoption and adaptation of open textbooks for use in their courses.

I already use Skype quite a bit and have a few tools to help with the collection and processing of interview data.  Tools like:

• Call recorder for Skype
• Transcriva
• Hindenburg Journalist Pro (also works with Skype and is designed for podcasting and radio storytelling)
• TAMS Analyzer (because I use a Mac)

All aspects of the framework you've outlined are of interest to me for refining and streamling my approach.  So, happy to be participating.  Thanks for leading the session.

I'm Ann Randall, author of the case study in chapter 3. The research in that case was a pilot project for my dissertation at the University of Idaho. However, the university I'm affiliated with professionally is Boise State University, where I coordinate professional development for online faculty and collaborated in building the university's eLearning Quality Instruction Program (eQIP).

Since the online interviews I conducted were within the Second Life virtual world, the primary tools I used were within the virtual world application itself—notecards, IM, and chat (with logging enabled). I did not use voice; all my interviews were text interviews. Although most students also agreed to the interview through e-mail consent, a couple handled that in-world through a notecard.

I used an Excel spreadsheet to keep participant data and note interview times and places. And to analyze the interviews I used TAMS Analyzer, a freeware product for the Mac. I haven't used it yet in the latest Mac OS (Lion), but it appears that the more recent versions do work.

Hi!

I am Dani Brandon. I am also a Capella doctoral candidate, living in Columbus, IN. I am conducting a grounded theory study for my dissertation and I plan to use Skype or a similar online meeting program to interview consenting study participants from around the United States. I am participating in this webinar in order to learn from those who have already conducted online interviews - so I can learn avoid pitfalls and optimize the process I follow.

It already looks as if we have a great mix of participants. I am looking forward to the next 10 days with everyone

Dani

Hi Everyone,

My name is ILA Allen and I am a doctoral learner at Capella University, living in the Chicagoland area. I am currently at the proposal stage and very interested  in this topic because I will be conducting online interviews via Skype. My methodology is netnography (online/Internet ethnography) so I want to learn about this as much as I can.

Thanks

Ila

Hi folks

I am Wendy Kraglund-Gauthier, author of Chapter 8. I am located in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, at Saint Francis Xavier University. I am an Instructional Designer (on leave) and a professor in our Bachelor of Education (F2F) and Master of Education (I teach online) programs. I am also a doctoral student with the University of South Australia. I, of course [and perhaps unfortunately], study at a distance, and connect with my supervisors via Skype and Collaborate.

My doctoral research has involved an action research project with MEd professors as they moved from teaching courses face-to-face to an online environment using Blackboard and Elluminate. I used Elluminate to conduct individual interviews and focus group sessions.

I look forward to this SCoPE session and connecting with all of you!
Wendy

Hi Janet,

My name is Nellie Deutsch. I have been teaching English to speakers of other languages since the mid 70s and integragting technology into my face-to-face classes since the mid 90s. I provide online professional development workshops for educators around the world. The workshops include Moodle for teachers and teacher administrators, WebQuests, google docs, WizIQ live online classes, and wikis. I contributed to chapter 10 on Implementing Technology in Blended Learning Courses. The chapter is based on my doctoral research study. I am currently editing a book based on CO12, an online conferene conducted in February 3-5, 2012.  I am interersted in conducting online research and in publishing my work. I enjoyed working with Janet and find writing chapters and collaborative writing very rewarding. I hope to learn more about editing books, conducting research and online interviews. 

Thank you, Janet. You are an inspirationl!!!

My name is Glenn Groulx. I am an adult literacy educator at a college in Prince Rupert, in Northwest BC. I have been developing blended courses using social networks. I have been using a combination of blogs, wikis, twitter, with tweetdeck and netvibes. For my professional development, I maintain a blog within the Landing at Athabasca University and a personal wordpress edublog.

I look forward to learning more about using the methods for online interview research to develop a community online of students and organizations in the northwest region.

Looking forward to reading and learning.

Glenn Groulx

Hello everyone.  I'm a doctoral candidate doing research on personal learning networks as a form of professional learning (i.e., development). My data collection techniques will mainly include open and closed, online interviews and focus groups (via Google+ Hangouts) as well as a secondary analysis.  The degree of openness will depend on the participants, but ideally, the interviews and focus group discussions will not only involve the participants of the study, but also the general pubic.

Always interested in sharing ideas and experiences,

-Benjamin 

Hi Janet -  I'm Irwin DeVries, Director of Instructional Design at Thompson Rivers University, Open Learning Division. Like a number of others here I'm a PhD candidate and studying open course development and design. This is of particular interest to me as I will be gathering data from a busy and complex Wiki as well as conducting such processes as interviews and focus groups with participants worldwide. Looking forward to this discussion - Irwin

Hello Janet - I am looking forward to the session this evening. (I am based in the UK). I have used Skype for interviews for a paper I worked on in 2008 - and used Pamela for Skype for recording. I have also conducted email interviews for another paper I wrote.

Thanks for sharing your framework.

Jenny

Hello Janet,

I live in the Rockies (Valemount, BC) and am a “mature” Masters of Education (Distance Education) student at Athabasca University. 

I am in the thesis proposal stage and plan to complete a mixed methods study.  The first part is the quantitative survey that will guide the second qualitative online interviews.

I used Skype and MP3 Skype recorder for a research assignment and both worked well.  I look forward to learning about any tools, tips, and techniques to advance my research skills.

Barbie Bruce

Hello Everyone,

My name is Salwa Khan and I am a media consultant/faculty development person at Texas State University.  I just completed my PhD degree and my study was done in Second Life, largely using in-world interviews and class observations.  I'm interested to see what Janet has prepared on this topic and to hear what others are doing.

-Salwa

Hello all,

I’m Moira Hunter in Paris, France and I’m looking forward to the session in a few hours.   I’m also doing  doctoral research and will be conducting online interviews  very shortly, hence my interest in participating here. 

In the past, I’ve used a variety of tools including Oovoo , Skype plus CallRecorder (Mac) and PowerGramo (PC), webconferencing  and also inworld interviews.  Recording inworld has its problems, depending upon what you want to do, and platforms such as vAcademia are interesting for the recording features, although public at the moment.

Visit the top level of the discussion forum to see more discussion threads and resources. Please feel free to share your own examples, including books or articles that may be of interest to others. And do post your questions-- Cases contributors and I are happy to share our thoughts, insights and suggestions.

Hello everyone!

I am a doctoral student at Capella, in the dissertation phase, under the mentorship of Dr. Janet Salmons.  My topic of interest is in the area of virtual teaming.  I am an assistant professor online and a professional project manager. 

I have a copy of Dr. Salmons' book and have found it to be extremely helpful in providing some information on online interviewing techniques.

Suzanne

Hello everyone. I have been following and keep putting off clicking the submit button to introduce myself. I am an Educational Developer at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, new Zealand in the Educational Development Centre.

I have recently submitted my Doctorate in Education so the waiting game is in progress. During my research I interviewed some participants using Skype, and also used telephone interviewing. I was really interested to hear about the options for interviewing presented in the webinar. I had never thought of using a virtual world to interview.

I am very interested to join the discussions and find out what everyone is doing. You can read more about me on my blog and on my profile page in WikiEducator. Bron

I am a doctorate student in education curriculum & instruction. My dissertation topic is what are the barriers to rural students accessing higher education. My study will be qualitative in nature and will cover schools from 12 counties in the Arkansas Delta Region. My participants will be 11th and 12th graders, school guidance counselors, and parents of the junior and senior students. I hope to learn a lot from this workshop and have purchased the book Cases in Online Interview Research as well. I hope to do a lot of my face to face interviews online. Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated.