Over a month has passed since my last post, however, the lengthy delay is due to my rewarding myself with a holiday in Portugal! Actually this was an opportunity to combine a break with attendance at the European Distance and E-Learning Network conference in Lisbon. I presented a paper titled Time and Borderless Distance Education that introduced the main issues surrounding this research. I am pleased to say it was well received and attracted a few questions afterwards.
Holiday is always a good time for reading. I did allow myself a couple of novels but additionally managed to finish reading Ron Barnett's book A Will to Learn. I found his perspectives on student 'being', motivation etc very interesting albeit that he was focusing mainly on full time students. If I get a chance I must talk with him about distance learners.
Taking a holiday provides good opportunity for reflection. I feel pretty happy that the data collected so far is representative and that apart from the follow up surveys to track my sample of students I can definately draw a line under the data collection. Incidentally 46 resonses have been made to the first of these follow up questionnaires which I have yet to analyse.
I had my annual review with my supervisor at the Institute yesterday- we both agree that things are on track and that the next stage is to analyse the data collected in clusters to identify any significant relationships. These can then be examined in more details from the collected data. I am still remaining optimistic about completion and aim to have the first draft written by the end of this year.
Better get to work!!
Thursday 19 June 2008
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