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Hardening The Categories - The Problem Of Reliability In Identifying Themes Using Grounded Theory While Investigating What Theories Underpin E-Learning, Roisin Donnelly, Marian Fitzmaurice, Robbie Burns

Conference papers

The background research to this paper is focused within the context of a Higher Education Institution in the Republic of Ireland. The question, which drove the main focus of the research as a whole is: - ‘How can the Institution improve Staff Development processes to enable staff to develop blended (including online) learning, to enhance Learning and Teaching? This paper describes a critical element of the main research process. In seeking to answer the question our individual participation in the research as agents as well as researchers is acknowledged. Clearly there are all kinds of questions of subjectivity, objectivity, distance …