“Join OpenClass today and help us bring down the walls in education”
Wait… Aren’t textbook publishers the creators of one of the biggest walls to open accessible education for all? Don’t textbooks cost a fortune? Isn’t textbook publishing a multi-billion dollar industry based on making education exclusive to those who can afford their books? Isn’t Pearson the world’s largest textbook publisher?
Now I’m confused.
Norwegian online math learning environment Kikora. This video (in Norwegian) is interesting too.
My qualitative video analysis workflow
A lot of people have been asking me recently how I use Transana and it’s an interesting question for me too so I thought I would jot down my process. The truth is, I use Transana as the key tool in a bigger workflow that includes video editing and transcription software along with other qualitative analysis software. By coincidence, most of the software I use is cross-platform so, despite being a Mac user, my workflow would look pretty similar on Windows.
Starting at the point of having video recorded on a camera, my workflow tends to look something like this (though it depends a bit on what my research goal is):
- Use MPEG Streamclip to capture and compress the video from the camera. See this post for the settings I use.
- If the video is of an interview, transcribe it using Transcriva (a similar program for Windows users is Inqscribe). Export the transcript as an RTF file and then use my home-built conversion process to convert the Transcriva time codes to a format Transana can read.
- Import the video (and transcript if its an interview) into Transana. See this post for some videos help on working with Transana.
- If the video is of observational in nature, create a content log (as a fake transcript) with time coding in Transana. This or a detailed transcript allows clips to be identified and categorized.
- Usually at this point, I create keywords for structural characteristics such as which participant is speaking and the materials involved. I then go through the video and identify where these characteristics exist. This gives me a way to break down the video and if I have a lot of videos, it allows me to search across them for similar instances.
- Using the clips and keywords functions in Transana, I identify and organize instances across the video data I have. I tend to work in an inductive recursive way and as I create new categories and keywords, I go back through the instances I have already identified.
- Once I have identified specific short sections of a video or videos that I want to perform more detailed analysis on, I the move to Elan using the conversion workflow described here.
Researcher, designer, learner
