This week
was by far the easiest for me to understand. I have encountered and worked with
both quantitative and qualitative methods before. The assignment to choose a
paper that uses a quantitative method was useful and interesting. The workshop
with Olle was a great complement to the assignment, and was also really fun and
gave me a greater understanding of the different methods. It is always more
interesting when it is a competition! I learned among other things the pros and
cons with each method, how and why a method should be used and some pitfalls to
avoid. It was obvious that Olle did know what he talked about.
The most interesting
thing Olle talked about was interactive forms. Interactive forms can give
feedback to the user while doing the survey. The feedback may give the user extra
motivation to make an effort, and indirect result in a better research. Unfortunately,
interactive forms are rare; I myself have never encountered one. I really think
this way of conducting surveys have great potential and should be something form
developing tools should provide.The workshop in it self was designed in a similar fashion; the participants got feedback
in when they presented their results.
Good comments!
SvaraRaderaHi,
SvaraRaderaI totally agree that theme 4 were really easy to grasp. It is an really interesting reflection around how Olle Bälters seminar setup can be related to interactive feedback in surveys which he talked about. I guess that by including feedback in a learning/contributing process we can achieve better results both by making the process more fun while at the same time more instructive. Perhaps interactive feedback really has some future potential!