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Ettr525 Jabli Naif Final Paper
Ettr525 Jabli Naif Final Paper
Ettr525 Jabli Naif Final Paper
The artifact shown above is a completed research project developed specifically for the ETR
525 course. ETR 525 has a number of goals and objectives for its students in general. For me, it
was very beneficial because it increased my potential to comprehend and practice qualitative
research methods as well as to use research instruments such as interviews, group discussions,
observations, literature synthesis, etc. I participated in ETR 525 in the spring of 2014 and found
using qualitative methods. Before this class, I was comfortable mostly with conducting research
outlines for research papers and believed that I needed to expand myself. Through improving my
coding skills and theme grids, I learned how to make observations in research and then translate
This study meets this objective because it studies issues related to e-learning and distance
education. It also analyzes a specific and unique population. The method used was interviews
This objective is met because ethnics played a critical part in how this research was
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conducted. The informants were asked prior to beginning the audio recording if they would
consent to their voice being recorded. Fortunately, none of the participates objected to this.
Also, the informants were also debriefed about the meaning and purpose of the study before
conducting the interview. Even though it is not mandatory to disclose the purpose of
experiments, in this particular one, disclosing the information allowed for a more open and
This objective is met because the interviews were conducted in various places ranging from