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<\/a>Table 1. Example of tabular data from my content analysis.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\nConducting the content analysis proved to be challenging because it was not something I had done previously in the program. I followed Schreier\u2019s (2015) approach to coding to create a spreadsheet, which I used to identify functionality that was present or absent in each OER repository. I found the paper by Santos-Hermosa, Ferran-Ferrer, and Abadal (2017) to be a great help when choosing how to present my findings. Their paper included a wide-scale content analysis of over 100 repositories, which identified a number of different themes and metrics. Although on a much larger scale than my own content analysis, their paper presented its findings in easy-to-understand tables, grouped by theme. I used a similar approach to present the findings for my own content analysis, which enabled me to support the themes I had identified with tabular data (see Table 1). In the end, I analyzed 14 repositories during my content analysis. With more time and a larger scope, it would have been interesting to analyze more repositories and perhaps use alternate selection criteria, knowing what I now know about the importance that pedagogy and communities of practice have in my final recommendations.<\/p>\n
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Santos-Hermosa, G., Ferran-Ferrer, N. & Abadal, E. (2017). Repositories of Open Educational Resources: An assessment of reuse and educational aspects. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18<\/em>(5), 84\u2013120. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.19173\/irrodl.v18i5.3063<\/p>\n Schreier, M. (2015). Qualitative Content Analysis. In Flick, U. (Ed.). (2013). The SAGE handbook of qualitative data analysis<\/em>. Sage publishing.https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.4135\/9781526416070<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the early design decisions I made during my research project was to include a content analysis along with interviews as part of my research methods. Interviews would provide great first-hand insights from teachers using Free Learning, however, I also wanted to take a broad look at OER repositories to see how they\u2019re designed.… Continue reading Performing Content Analysis<\/span>