Assignment 10, Method Section

Method:

Dr. Newberry and the graduate students from ETEC 543 at Cal State University of San Bernardino conducted this research study in new media in online learning. The graduate students were guided by Dr. Newberry to conduct a research study in new media in online learning and the students were able to locate, evaluate, use and conduct research. The following are the procedures that this researcher study implemented.

The purpose of this study was to investigate new media in online learning. Some of the quantitative study procedures were the recruitment of subjects and instruction of taking the survey (instrument). The participants were recruit by the students from ETEC 543 class session (from Cal State University San Bernardino) and the participants’ requirements were that they had to be 18 years of age and have a background in higher education; this requirement was essential to the study in order to have control over the participant recruitment. The subjects were recruited through informal contacts, by email, face-to-face, and by phone calls.

Moreover, this quantitative research used a survey as the instrument and the process to develop the instrument was to gather questions regarding new media in online learning. To complete the instrument the students from ETEC 543 class were required to submit three questions to their instructor. These were some of the focus questions:

1)Is there a relationship between the amount of portable media (podcasts) a student consumes and their desire for portable media use in online learning?
2)What level of involvement in planning, organizing, and making media choices do adult online learners desire?
3)Is the use of collaboration to comment on other students’ work viewed as beneficial by online students?
4)What media types do students express a preference for using for a variety of activities related to instruct-student interaction, student-student interaction, and student-content interaction?

Also, the implementation and the procedures were that the participants would take the online survey. The participants were given the URL to locate the survey and they were informed that the length of the survey was 15 minutes or less and that the subjects were to remained anonymous. The subjects took this particular survey by using a questionnaire that measured the attitudes and beliefs of the participants. The choices and the answers from the survey reflected the varying degrees of intensity. Some of the examples used in the survey for the respondents were to answer a question and the measure was as followed 1 meaning that the person did not like it at all and a 5 meaning that the person like it a great deal. One of the negative aspects of this online survey was the full completion of the survey and an insufficient participation of subjects.