How’s that!
We place a lot of importance on what others think. We win degrees, awards and self-esteem through the opinions (or whims, or prejudices) of our esteemed judges. But how do they know?
In an early blog, David Jones http://davidtjones.wordpress.com/page/4/ referred to an article by Cronholm and Goldkuhl about strategies for information systems evaluation. They have conveniently created a matrix that reveals six types of strategies. These six types are contrived from research questions related to what to evaluate and how to go about that. I am particularly intrigued with what they call “Goal free” evaluation, which is emergent by nature, and perhaps aligns with what David would call “ateleological” in structure (if that is not a contradiciton in terms).
I am keen to explore the extent to which each of these designs might inform our research into PLEs, and then (as the authors suggest) triangulate the findings for a comprehensive, and perhaps integrated view of PLE potential.
Time to feed the kittens now.
