room. In order to control and monitor the progress using the technology, occasionally the lecturer gave teaching support in laboratory and conducted face-to-face meeting
with the students. To follow Virtual Organising module efficiently, the researcher had involved
in face-to-face meeting together with fellow students to discuss the plan, the assignment, and shared task for improvement in Web-based teaching and learning
technology usage. Guidance from the lecturer in the face-to-face meeting was also useful in improving student progress.
1.24. Action Case Research in Salford University Context
The justification of the research methodology for action case research used in this research has been given in Chapter 3. As it has been explained Chapter 3, this
research used an interpretivist analysis and a qualitative strategy, however a quantitative strategy was also used to complement the results. The researcher
conducted participant observation Marshall, 1999 and relatively small intervention together with his fellow students in order to follow the module effectively. This
research combined participant observation of the course with questionnaire and in- depth interview.
The questionnaire was made based on the unified conceptual framework given in Chapter 2. This framework comprises of important factors of the usage of Web
based teaching and learning technology to guide the research. The interview was focused on the students’ and the lecturer’s experience in the usage of Web based
teaching and learning technology. Since the aim of the interview was to obtain reflection, the researcher used semi-structured interview which had a dialogic
character with little formal structure. Interviews were conducted individually and generally lasted from 40 to 60 minutes. In order to get complete information from the
interviewee, permission was requested to record the interview on tape. Dialogue with the lecturer as well as the supervisor for his course was free-chat and wide-ranging,
driven by the regular discussion arising from of the literature and the lecturers experience of the Virtual Organising module.
The questionnaire was conducted after the students had completed the module. There were six students in this module including the researcher. From five
questionnaires distributed to the fellow students, four questionnaires were returned
see Appendix C. Based on the questionnaire the researcher conducted individual interviews.
1.25. Analysis of the Action Case Research in Salford University Context
