Comments on: Notes: Meyer, K.A. A Study of Online Discourse at The Chronicle of Higher Education

By: Kelly Edmonds

Kelly Edmonds — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:16:50 +0000

Hi, D’Arcy. If you haven’t already you might want to check out Liam Rourke and Terry Anderson’s work at:

Rourke, L. & Anderson, T. (2004). Validity issues in quantitative computer conference transcript
analysis. Educational Technology Research and Development 52(1) 5-18. retrieved Oct 2006
from http://www.springerlink.com/content/r78747453hr05652/

ps. I, too, was rejected from commenting on Stephen Downes site. Sigh.

Kelly

By: Sami

Sami — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:29:40 +0000

Someone should do signal to noise analysis in academia. It's a wonder anything useful comes out of it...

By: dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:56:14 +0000

yeah. that thought has been ringing around in my head after Stephen (rightly, and politely) tore me a new one for the craptastic academicized paper I posted at the end of the W2010 semester. REALLY want to avoid just pumping more stale/lame crap into the tubes...

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:48:17 +0000

As you suggest, the various protocols and rules involved with making this examination an "academic study" constrain analysis so tightly that nothing of interest is revealed. Not unusual in this genre. And think how much time by smart people was invested in the process?

There's more than one crisis in scholarly publishing.