Qualitative research methods to analyze Learning 2.0 processes: Categorization, recurrence, saturation and multimedia triangulation

The developments of the Web have generated new modalities and contexts of learning, shaping what is nowadays called “Learning 2.0”. Within this new phenomenon it arises a trend of moving out from the linearity of written word toward new multimedia complexities, that lead to a parallel semiotic comp...

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Main Authors: Gustavo Daniel Costantino, Juliana Elisa Raffaghelli, Guadalupe Alvarez, Lourdes Moran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Italian e-Learning Association 2012-05-01
Series:Je-LKS: Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society
Online Access:https://www.je-lks.org/ojs/index.php/Je-LKS_EN/article/view/614
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author Gustavo Daniel Costantino
Juliana Elisa Raffaghelli
Guadalupe Alvarez
Lourdes Moran
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Lourdes Moran
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description The developments of the Web have generated new modalities and contexts of learning, shaping what is nowadays called “Learning 2.0”. Within this new phenomenon it arises a trend of moving out from the linearity of written word toward new multimedia complexities, that lead to a parallel semiotic complexity lying behind them. Understanding the above mentioned complexities implies to preserve and make explicit the collaboratory construction of knowledge through the identification of events, instruments, signs. This identification is in fact an analytic process, where the researcher divides the raw data into units of meaning making that must be read both in the specific contribution made by every mode (text, images, audio) as well as a whole. This is possible through an inverse process of analysis and interpretation that depends on specific instruments regarding the qualitative methodological approach. These last must be, in fact, appropriated to the new environments and phenomena. In this work the authors introduce several examples of educational research practice where categorization and triangulation were implemented on data collected from interactive processes in online learning environments, to further obtain recurrences and saturation of data. In second place, going a step further on the discussion of appropriated methods to Learning 2.0 analysis , the so called “multimedia triangulation” is presented, on the basis of analysis of data collected inside the same case study.
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spelling doaj.art-5d7f4c89d59f424480b6a41ff1af52b42022-12-22T01:19:59ZengItalian e-Learning AssociationJe-LKS: Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society1826-62231971-88292012-05-018210.20368/1971-8829/614Qualitative research methods to analyze Learning 2.0 processes: Categorization, recurrence, saturation and multimedia triangulationGustavo Daniel Costantino0Juliana Elisa Raffaghelli1Guadalupe Alvarez2Lourdes Moran3Centro de Investigaciones en Antropologia Cultural y FilosofcaUniversità Cà FoscariCentro de Investigaciones en Antropologia Cultural y FilosofcaCentro de Investigaciones en Antropologia Cultural y FilosofcaThe developments of the Web have generated new modalities and contexts of learning, shaping what is nowadays called “Learning 2.0”. Within this new phenomenon it arises a trend of moving out from the linearity of written word toward new multimedia complexities, that lead to a parallel semiotic complexity lying behind them. Understanding the above mentioned complexities implies to preserve and make explicit the collaboratory construction of knowledge through the identification of events, instruments, signs. This identification is in fact an analytic process, where the researcher divides the raw data into units of meaning making that must be read both in the specific contribution made by every mode (text, images, audio) as well as a whole. This is possible through an inverse process of analysis and interpretation that depends on specific instruments regarding the qualitative methodological approach. These last must be, in fact, appropriated to the new environments and phenomena. In this work the authors introduce several examples of educational research practice where categorization and triangulation were implemented on data collected from interactive processes in online learning environments, to further obtain recurrences and saturation of data. In second place, going a step further on the discussion of appropriated methods to Learning 2.0 analysis , the so called “multimedia triangulation” is presented, on the basis of analysis of data collected inside the same case study.https://www.je-lks.org/ojs/index.php/Je-LKS_EN/article/view/614
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title Qualitative research methods to analyze Learning 2.0 processes: Categorization, recurrence, saturation and multimedia triangulation
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title_short Qualitative research methods to analyze Learning 2.0 processes: Categorization, recurrence, saturation and multimedia triangulation
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