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Collaborative Research: A Partnership That Seizes Opportunities, Navigates Challenges and Constructs New Knowledge and Shared Understandings

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This chapter recounts the journey of researchers who navigate situational, contextual, and methodological challenges during the course of an action research project. A collective case study was used to reach cross-institutional, multidisciplinary understandings of the patterns, processes, and consequences of learner interaction in online courses. A model was constructed to explain the relationships among course design, interaction, and learning. A set of guidelines was also developed that identified curriculum design and delivery conditions conducive to interaction and effective learning in online courses. Yet it is argued the significance of this journey resides in the knowledge constructed as a consequence of the recursive actions and interactions within the research maze and the reflexive dynamic among researchers whose learning was enhanced rather than obstructed by the obstacles they found in their way.

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Support for the original work was provided by the Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIISRTE) through the DEHub Project. Also acknowledged are the members of the collaborative research team: Colin Beer, Damian Clark, Patrick Danaher, Bobby Harreveld, and Henriette van Rensburg.

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    Patrick Alan Danaher

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Rossi, D. (2016). Collaborative Research: A Partnership That Seizes Opportunities, Navigates Challenges and Constructs New Knowledge and Shared Understandings. In: Rossi, D., Gacenga, F., Danaher, P. (eds) Navigating the Education Research Maze. Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39853-2_14

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