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Responses are posts that demonstrate that you are participating. Students are expected to actively participate in the discussion board(s) each week. Note: * DO NOT post all of your participation replies on the last day of the week! Doing so does not facilitate student-to-student interaction and minimizes the learning experience for all. Your instructor may choose to reduce points if all replies are made on the same day. Responses to others must add substantively to the discussion by building upon classmates’ ideas and posing critical questions to further the discussion. For example, a posting of “I agree with what people are saying” is not sufficient. What is considered sufficient is initiating further discussion, promoting further thought, providing critical or integrative dialogue, providing effective support or encouragement, challenging by showing supporting literature or other documentation, and/or self-reflecting regarding the topic. An ideal response to another student looks like:
Hi Student Name,
I appreciated reading your initial post this week as you highlight many of the difficulties in approaching research from a qualitative perspective. However, in their work, Jones (2011) notes that qualitative research is an approach to gathering data that is both inquisitive and challenging. Moreover, what I respect about the process of qualitative inquiry is that in-depth and personally significant questions or inquiry can be asked. Do you agree or disagree with Jones’s (2011) statement that qualitative research is both inquisitive and challenging… and what would you say is the difference between qualitative and quantitative inquiry?
Thoughts?
Regards,
Student Name
References: Jones, B. (2011). Qualitative approaches to data collection. Journal of Qualitative Research, 12(2), 334-354.