DATA

Welcome to the first module / iteration / section / concept of the Postqualitative Online Course: Data. Many researchers around the world get little to no support in postqualitative research, even in research methods courses. In this course, we are making use of the resources generated through this project (and more) to offer context, stimuli, and “guidance” (creating spaces for thinking together) in the doing of postqualitative research. The resources and activities of units 1,2 and 3 are curated by Mirka Koro and are linked to her doctoral course titled “Data and Data Construction” at Arizona State University (ASU).

Here are some important things to note before you begin (have you not yet begun?):

This module on data has four parts:

• Reading/listening/watching resources (independent work)

• Responding to resources through guided activities (independent work)

• Sharing and connecting your making/thinking/playing on collaborative whiteboards (in your own time)

• Meeting online to audit a class, discuss and think together (set times) 

Resources: The course includes a number of multimedia resources including videos, texts, poems, and images. Engage in your own time and pace. Each section has two or three resources (each included as a ‘lesson’), plus some “extra” suggested resources. 

Activities: Each section of the course has an activity to guide your engagement. 

Whiteboards: For each section, we invite you to join the collaborative whiteboard where you can share your makings from the activity. You are welcome to draw, upload images/videos/audio, write comments, etc. This is a space to share what you have made/written/played/thought in response to the resources and activity. We encourage you to make connections between ‘your’ work and ‘others’ and build on each other’s ideas. All students are expected to remain respectful in this space! In order to keep these spaces secure, you will need to make a free account on canva.com using the email address you are registered under. If you have a different email address for Canva please email grow.rowley@gmail.com to secure your access to whiteboards

Meetings: There are several different face-to-face opportunities! Please check the announcements tab and emails for information about this. 

• Opportunity 1: Class audits via zoom. You can audit a doctoral methods class at ASU taught by Mirka Koro. The zoom link will be sent to the registered participants.

• Opportunity 2: Pedagogical discussion following the class audit. During pedagogical discussion zoom meeting participants will reflect on the audited class and its content.

• Opportunity 3: We will also meet most weeks for a Community of Enquiry. This will be an opportunity to ask questions, think together, draw connections, discuss the resources and activities, and what’s happening on the whiteboards.

On time:  THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT! We are playing with how to work in the online space and how to become postqualitatively with/in the technologies available to us. As such, we have included three modules to start and will add to the course as we go. This means there is no set “end date” for the course or a “beginning” for the next module. Please bear with us! It is an emerging process – it is a doing with rather than a doing to participants. Please give feedback or suggestions at any time: click here. 

On language: As we are starting out, our content is currently in English. We really hope to disrupt this as we go and suggestions for that will be welcomed (and needed)! In the meantime, please note that contributions to the whiteboards are welcomed in whatever languages and mediums are best for you.

Welcome and thank you for joining us on this journey.