I’ve finally taken the plunge and got all my epistolary interviews with students and tutors underway. This was supposed to happen much earlier, but I got held up by the issue of which conferences could be archived which has really only just been sorted out.<\/p>\n
I didn’t want to end up interviewing a random selection of people, so had to wait until I found out which conferences would be archived.<\/p>\n
I’m now interviewing everyone on the four archived conferences who agreed to an interview. I’ve focused on another conference which hasn’t been archived, as the tutor wrote on their consent form that it had been an interesting group. I’ve also focused on another unarchived group, because lots of its members agreed to be interviewed.<\/p>\n
Together with the interviews I did when I was expecting to interview other groups, that’s 22 in all. I’ve started 16 today, which is too many to have running at the same time – but I didn’t want to delay any longer.<\/p>\n
Some of the students and tutors have given their OU email addresses. I know they use these when a course is running, but I’m worried they won’t check those mail boxes otherwise. It will be interesting to see whether everyone takes part in the interviews.<\/p>\n
Two interviews with tutors from the last tranche petered out. I’ve decided to leave these, as the tutors were obviously busy and I don’t want to pester them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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