Workshop presentations and activities

Contents:

1. What are online research methods?
2. Activity - Your interest in ORMs.
   This suggested activity allows time for a short group discussion in which participants can discuss their prior knowledge of ORMs and their expectations. This is followed by brief plenary feedback.
3. What value online research?
4. But... disadvantages
5. Careful and critical use of ORMs

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Contents:

1. Types of online questionnaires
2. Activity - Register for an account.
   This suggested activity aims to stimulate participants to consider the nature of online questionnaires and the types of features that may encourage drop-out. The link is to a 'trick' survey which includes a number of questions that are personal in nature. After a short time, participants can be prompted to give their thoughts on being asked to complete this questionnaire. Issues of privacy and identity may emerge.
3. When to use an online questionnaire?
4. Advantages of online questionnaires
5. Disadvantages of online questionnaires
6. Sampling issues
7. Conclusion
8. Design issues
9. Links to information on design issues on this website
10. Activity - Exploring question formats
    This activity explores the impact of question type on completion times and response rates. Students should access the question types activity at http://wads.le.ac.uk//gg/orm/timingform.htm. They should individually work through the questionnaire and they should be encouraged to provide genuine responses. They should then compare their times with the averages and identify the key issues that affected response times, individually or in pairs/small groups.
11. Online Survey Implementation Overview
12. Implementation Options
13. Activity introduction - Using an online tool.
    This introduces the Bristol Online Surveys tool (BOS), which is the service used for the hands-on activities that follow. If you plan to incorporate a hands-on questionnaire building activity and you do not have access to this tool, you will need to substitute this information with your own chosen tool. The 'technical guide' section of this website includes listings of such tools and services.
14. Activity - Developing an online questionnaire
    This short activity allows participants to consider questions they may wish to ask in an online survey. These questions can then be used in the hands-on exercise that follows
15. Activity - Using the Bristol Online Survey Tool
    This activity allows participants to build questions using the BOS tool - See above.

 

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Contents:

1. A research example: The Cyberparents project
2. Overview of project
3. The research process
4. The web-based questionnaire
5. The Online synchronous interviews
6. Software
7. The interview process
8. Engagement, interaction and communication in Synchronous online interviews
9. Visual clues and rapport
10. Virtual rapport
11. Example of sharing profile data
12. Engagement and rapport
13. The interview conversation
14. Online interviews: Key decisions
15. Conclusions- the potentials…
16. …and the limitations
17. …so to conclude
18. Quotes
19. References

 

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Contents:

1. Activity - Synchronous interviews
   The interviews were set up on the topic of parenting, using the Adobe Connect synchronous meeting tool. The choice of topic can be adapted according to the context. If you do not have access to Adobe Connect, you will need to substitute this information with your own chosen tool. The 'Interviews' module of this website includes listings of similar tools and services. Participants were divided into groups of 4-5 with one interviewer in each group.
2. Scenarios
   The participants were divided up to prepare for the interviews and presented with a scenario for either interviewers or interviewees. The interviewers were tasked with preparing an outline interview script, while the interviewees developed their parenting 'stories'.
3. Task activity
   Participants were given 20 minutes to carry out their interviews
4. Feedback on synchronous discussion
   All participants discussed their experiences in groups using the focus questions provided. This was followed by a plenary session.

 

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Contents:

1. Online research ethics
2. Ethical decision making and Internet research
3. Where does it fit in?
4. The challenge of interdisciplinary ethics
5. Informed consent
6. Confidentiality
7. Privacy
8. International inequalities
9. Activity - Ethical Scenarios
   Participants are divided into groups of 3-4 and presented with one of three project research ethics forms. They are given 10 minutes to discuss the ethical issues raised and consider which are particular to the online environment. Plenary feedback follows. The ethics forms are available from the following links: Iraq (pdf, 62KB), miscarriage (pdf, 62KB) and facebook (pdf, 64KB).
10. TRI-ORM resources and general discussion (slides 13-22)
    These slides provide an overview of the TRI-ORM resources and training which can be used to highlight what is available to participants.
11. The future 1
12. The future 2

Ethics, further resources and the future of ORMs (ppt, 2.74MB)