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Title

E-role play for inquiry into transnational education

Author(s)

Vallack, Jocene;  Charleson, Ian

Abstract

This paper was inspired by the need to evaluate and make recommendations regarding the future directions of Swinburne University's Transnational Education program This paper postulates that a qualitative approach to data collection and analysis, using online role play, would produce more meaningful and productive results. The cultural awakening brought about by this process of assuming and acting out roles based on life in Australia may encourage more students to give further consideration to the possibility of completing their degrees in Australia. The authors propose to use an established and reliable approach to qualitative data analysis. Crotty's (1996) 5 step phenomenology is a suitable methodology, favoured by the authors for this particular research. Other phenomenological methodologies (Husserl (1977/1925), and Vallack (2005), are not appropriate in this case. Whereas Crotty's theoretical framework is informed by constructivism, and allows the researchers to work external to the inquiry, the latter two methodologies demand a degree of subjectivity, which is not feasible for this research.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Business and Enterprise

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Academic Development and Support

Source

ICT: Providing choices for learners and learning: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ascilite) Conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 02-05 December 2007

Publication year

2007

Keyword(s)

Cultural awareness;  Online role play;  Phenomenological methodologies;  Swinburne University of Technology;  TNE;  Transnational education

Publisher

Centre for Educational Development, Nanyang Technological University

ISBN

9789810595791

Publisher URL

http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/singapore07/procs/

Copyright

Copyright © 2007 Jocene Vallack and Ian Charleson. The authors assign to ascilite and educational non-profit institutions a non-exclusive licence to use this document for personal use and in courses of instruction provided that the article is used in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. The authors also grant a non-exclusive licence to ascilite to publish this document on the ascilite web site and in other formats for Proceedings ascilite Singapore 2007. Any other use is prohibited without the express permission of the authors.

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