qualitative research – Linking Learning

Becoming Connected: Using networks to collect data in social media environments

Posted on June 20, 2017June 27, 2017 by KayO

This is the supporting post to the QUT Education Faculty Research and Publication (RAP) Week workshop I presented along with my supervisor, Associate Professor Hilary Hughes and Dr Mandy Lupton. The aim of the workshop was to share my own experiences of researching using social media, and to highlight the value of developing connections and […]

Theories of Connected Learning

Posted on February 28, 2017 by KayO

The simplest way to define a theory is that it is a way of explaining how something works, or why something happens the way that it does. To understand connected learning, and to create effective connected learning environments, we need to understand how learning happens. Several wise people (their names are listed in the reference […]

Creating Connections – understanding research terminology

Posted on February 16, 2017February 16, 2017 by KayO

If there is one thing that I have learnt in the twelve months of doctoral research I have undertaken, it is that in the Social Sciences, everyone has their own definition – for everything. Almost every word encountered, even ones you thought you understood, such as ‘paradigm’, ‘concept’, ‘model’, and ‘conceptual framework’ has many different […]