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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Qualitative Research Methods by University of Amsterdam

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About the Course

In this course you will be introduced to the basic ideas behind the qualitative research in social science. You will learn about data collection, description, analysis and interpretation in qualitative research. Qualitative research often involves an iterative process. We will focus on the ingredients required for this process: data collection and analysis. You won't learn how to use qualitative methods by just watching video's, so we put much stress on collecting data through observation and interviewing and on analysing and interpreting the collected data in other assignments. Obviously, the most important concepts in qualitative research will be discussed, just as we will discuss quality criteria, good practices, ethics, writing some methods of analysis, and mixing methods. We hope to take away some prejudice, and enthuse many students for qualitative research....

Top reviews

KF

Dec 20, 2018

I found this a very useful way of getting a basic introduction to qualitative research methods, without just sitting down with some text books. The content was engaging and at the right level for me.

DR

Oct 8, 2016

The teacher is really passionate, everything's very clear and easy to understand. It's full of all the basic knowledge one needs to know about qualitative research methods to begin working with them.

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By Diede K

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Aug 25, 2017

The amount of information is quite unstructured. I found it difficult to distinguish the essential information from the less important information. Besides that, the subtitles where really bad most of the time. Which was a pity. However, I still learned a lot.

By Nargiz S

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Nov 27, 2023

The instructor's constant movements in the course videos were extremely distracting. It was almost impossible for me to focus on the actual content, turning the learning process into a challenge. Unfortunately, had to unenroll.

By Candacee W

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Sep 16, 2018

Difficult to understand some assignments and questions. Requires a great deal of work, in addition to attempting to understand what is being asked of students. Excellent content, though!

By Naohi I

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Jul 10, 2017

The course materials and assignments were excellent, but it would be better if the faculty give me some kind of personal comments on our works.

By Bertik B

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Dec 10, 2015

Good, but it lacks proper materials to come back to - slides are very heavy and not clear and transcript is missing connections to slides.

By Luísa G B A L

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Nov 16, 2023

I think that peer review should not be the only form of evaluation, or there should be more supervision on the evaluations moments.

By tengson p

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Oct 12, 2016

I found this course very useful and would recommend it to friends if they are interested

By Fabian G

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Dec 5, 2015

Very convoluted; examples not so clear; still interesting and well produced.

By Wendy

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Sep 3, 2020

very vague questions in the tests

By Mark C

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Mar 13, 2016

Dr Moerman is passionate about qualitative research and does use some interesting examples to illustrate his ideas, some of which are drawn from his own research experiences. Do note that if you were to take this course, you need time because the assignments are time consuming and the videos are (I think) a little longer than they really need to be. Also, some of the assignments are designed in a pretty strange way (e.g. one week's assignment requires a shocking 10 peer reviews to pass but when I took the course, there were only a few submissions). This probably means I can't get my cert until the next session starts - if I'm lucky!

By Tomoe I

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May 16, 2020

The professor was very powerful, however this course is very academic and not the best if you are looking for hands-on qualitative research methods. Although I learned a lot of methods, unfortunately I could not understand each of them since they are just explained, not showing the informative examples.

By Jeanson-Jian W G L

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Jan 8, 2018

Content of the lesson marred by extremely poor presentation. This is particularly egregious in regards to the assignments, and Quizzes, as a lack of fluency from the content writers makes the experience of knowing what precisely is being asked an unnecessarily frustrating process.

By Karina Z

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May 22, 2016

I had done ALL the tasks in February-March - I don't remember exactly when, but I received my certificate in May. The course was interesting, but I needed the certificate for my application to university. Now I'm so dissapointed.

By Lucy B

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Jan 2, 2017

A very enthusiastic teacher, but the information was difficult to follow and some of the assessments took over 4 hours to complete. This made it hard to get the work done.

By Raju G

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Nov 14, 2016

Very vague, abstract ideas in the lectures. Would be much better if more real-life examples and scenarios were used in the lectures to convey those abstract ideas.

By Monica

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Jul 29, 2020

As a humanities student, I find this module not challenging and boring. The videos are way too long and hard to follow.

By Olalowo I

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Nov 20, 2020

Please , the style of power reviewing assignment isn't encouraging. It's delaying my completion for over 3 months

By Abigail B

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Feb 13, 2016

Video's were great but some of the assignments were unpractical and the tests were based on minuscule details.

By Kristo L

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Jun 19, 2016

content is not good, too scattered content, cannot find focus.

assignments are meaningless.

By Anthony J M

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Jun 28, 2016

Scattered lectures that are hard to follow and choppy

By Radu V

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Jul 7, 2020

the course is locked and i cant review or submit

By Arun P

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Dec 5, 2015

Too abstract and unroganized

By Susie P

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Oct 1, 2016

Not recommended.

By مرحبا ا

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Dec 23, 2019

very bad