edde 806 presentation - collaboration
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Collaboration!Wait… Say what?!?
Hello!Apostolos Koutropoulos
“AK”Cohort 7Boston, MA
You can find me at:@koutropoulos
Working Title
Open Course Collaboration: A case
study of emergent collaboration in
Rhizo14 and Rhizo15
This Presentation...
◎ Background◎ “Problem”◎ Methodology◎ Literature Review◎ Points of Interest◎ Roadmap
1.BackgroundWhere did this thing begin?
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Pre-HistoryCollaboration in MobiMOOC 2011
Rhizo14The community that piqued (kindled?) my interest in
collaborative research in online communities
Rhizo15Rhizo15, the band comes back...
What Happened in (or because of) the Rhizos?
◎ We learned...◎ We interacted… (student-student, and student-content)
◎ We formed voluntary groups to research… (wait...what? This wasn’t in the syllabus!)
Not unprecedented...
Products of this collaboration...
◎ Research Papers (peer reviewed)◎ Guest Blogs (Profhacker)◎ Conference Presentations◎ Virtually Connecting (Rhizo spin off?)
2.“Problem”More of a phenomenon...really!
Why?The big question
Return (for more)Connect
EndureParticipate
Why?
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Research Questions
IntentionalityWhat motivations are there for creating and joining a group?
LimitsHow long do collaborative relationships last?
● What are some of the limits to
collaboration, are they overcome?
● Do collaborations persist? What
are the reasons for and against?
● Do collaborations have limits? Or
do they continue, in some form,
in perpetuity?
● What were the initial motivations
for creating or joining a group?
● Did members join intentionally,
or did they just fall into the
collaboration?
● What did members hope to gain
from such collaboration, and did
they achieve their goals?
3.MethodologyHow to reach this thing...
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Overall Methodology
Emergent Case Study Design◎ Qualitative or sequential mixed-methods
Data Collection◎ Questionnaire◎ Interviews◎ Document collection◎ Journaling◎ Focus groups (depending...)
Research Participants
Individuals who:◎ enrolled in Rhizo14 and/or Rhizo15 ◎ collaborated an extra-curricular research
project that was:○ published in an academic journal○ published in an non-peer-review venue○ presented at a conference.
◎ in groups of 2 or more people
Location of potential participants
Analysis
◎ Survey Analysis○ If mixed methods, quantitative analysis
◎ Thematic Analysis of transcripts○ Two rounds of individual interviews, ○ maybe a focus group as the third round
◎ Document analysis○ Participants’ blogs reflecting on collaboration○ Industry publications written by collaborators
Validity
◎ Multiple coders for transcripts◎ Member checking
○ Transcript accuracy○ Interpretation accuracy○ Peer review of final product
◎ Triangulation
Limitations
◎ Small sample size (it’s OK, it’s a case study)
◎ Not generalizable (that’s fine by me, qualitative studies generally are not)
◎ Group does not appear to be ‘the norm’ of participants in MOOCs (learning something from the “deviants”)
4.Literature ReviewBeen there before? Maybe...maybe not!
Challenges: #1 where to begin?
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The obvious:Start with similar classroom research
The thought:Skeptical if such prior research is really useful - unecesarry rabbit hole (?)
Challenges #2: Multiple lenses
Motivation
Actor Network Theory
Organizational Theory
Communities
Personal Learning Networks
Leadership
Open ethos
Networked Learning
Need to pare down?
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Multiple Lenses (805 Assignment 1 version)
LeardershipMotivation PLNs
Org. TheoryANT
Multiple Lenses (805 Assignment 3 version)
Current thoughts (most likely to change, don’t hold me to them)
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Literature Review Reset
MOOC (especially the last couple of
years…)
Collaboration (characteristics of
successful collaborative relationships)
Collaboration Instances
(classroom, work, Prof. Dev.)
5.Points of Interestəˈmərjənt dəˈzīn
Relevance of traditional classroom literature?
Pondering how relevant research into traditional classroom-based collaboration is.
How deep to go into it?
Networked Learning & SNA
What’s a product?
Expanding definition = expanding participants?
Methods
Lincoln & Guba (1985, 1994)
◎ Member checking◎ Credibility
Geertz (1973)
◎ Thick Descriptions
Denzin (1978)
◎ Triangulation
6.RoadmapHow long will this take then?
α β γ δSpring2017
Fall2017
Spring 2018
Fall 2018
Go through feedback
Expand Lit Review section
Refine & elaboration on methods
Proposal Work
Defense Data Collection &
Analysis
Writing & Checking
Feedback from Advisor
Feedback from the interwebs
Refine
Defend!
Data Collection
Analysis
Data Collection
Analysis
(rinse,repeat)
Member checking
Re-analysing
Committee Feedback
Public Feedback & comment
Writing
Spring Semester Goals (Feb-July)
Literature Review◎ Read through this pile -->◎ Discover and read related literature
○ Traditional classrooms collab
Methodology
◎ Read through Yin & Stake Books◎ Read through Internet Inquiry◎ Review Creswell (again)
Ethics
◎ Review AOIR ethics recommendations
Nothing is true, everything is permitted
“Be ruthlessly pragmatic (paraphrased)
Marguerite KooleEDDE 806 (01/2016)
Thanks!Any questions?
You can find me at:@koutropoulos