The grounded theory and coding practice in this Class is fun. After reading through all the grounded theory guidelines, I felt that coding is a systematic procedure which requires a lot of time and close reflections. And different person has different ideas when they tried to code the same materials in that 10 minutes.
For me, when I started reading through the material. I first thought about what research questions I held to analyze the data. To understand how information was posted for online courses? Second, I went through and found only one user were present, which means a lot of contextual information might be missing. Then I was thinking how I could analyze the data. From topics covered? Emotional change? Time of posts? How topics are related to the course? However, I didn’t notice about the funny or weird pieces as commented by my classmates. And it makes me to think about the reliability and validity issues in grounded theory coding. We all have our barriers so the coding results cannot get rid of its subjectivity. Another concern for me is whether personal judgment or comment are appropriate as the codes in analyzing the data. Shouldn’t us keep the objective perspective towards our data and keep ourselves as neutral?
