Welcome to Jeffrey Keefer’s Blog!

Educational Researcher / PhD Student (Lancaster University, UK) in E-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning / Adjunct Instructor (NYU & Pace U) / Project Manager (Clinical Education) in New York City.
Interests in educational research influenced by interdisciplinarity, focused on digital identity, doctorateness and the postgraduate experience, threshold concepts and transformative learning in higher education, Internet research, networked learning, technology enhanced learning, distance education, adult and organizational learning, narrative inquiry, and actor-network theory.
My professional work is at JeffreyKeefer.com
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I am happy to say I have just completed the analysis of my data for my doctoral thesis!
Let me clarify what I mean. By analysis, I mean making sense of the 23 interviews I completed by coding them, grouping similar concepts together, and then putting these concepts in a coherent order to present for [...]
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This is an interdisciplinary panel session on journal publishing, with Dorothy Becvar, Ron Chenail, Roy Ruckdeschel, Ian Shaw, Harry Torrance, and Donna Mertens.
While I have published a few articles with co-authors, I have not yet published a work with myself as the sole author. I think this will have to be a goal for [...]
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In the second of the two pre-conference sessions at ICQI, this one by Kathy Charmaz, I am looking forward to understanding grounded theory by one of the known experts in this methodology. She studied with both Strauss and Glaser.
Nice to have intros all the way around, with who people are and what they do. [...]
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I am attending a pre-conference workshop at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI10) on Focus Groups presented by Greg Dimitriadis and George Kamberelis. Nice that we are going around the room and introducing ourselves and mentioning what our experiences are. I mentioned that I am doing some organizational focus group work within an organization, [...]
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I am preparing my 2 paper presentations for the Sixth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, ICQI2010, and here are their abstracts as listed in the book of abstracts:
Keefer, Jeffrey M., Lancaster University Learning Goals and Personal Learning in Practitioner Autoethnographic Inquiry: A Case Study
Autoethnography is an increasingly used method of inquiry in the [...]
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I am traveling to England on Sunday for my residential at Lancaster University, and the focus this year is on the methodologies and ideas for the upcoming doctoral thesis (doctoral dissertation in the US) that we hope to begin after the next year of coursework.
One of the assignments we have for next week is [...]
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Quite happy to share the news that the second abstract I submitted for consideration to the 6th International Conference on Qualitative Inquiry was also accepted! I am really looking forward to this conference now!! This one is entitled:
The Design and Initial Development of an eLearning Course to Organize and Frame a Qualitative Research Design: [...]
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One of the abstracts I submitted for the QI2010 Conference (in May, 2010) was just accepted! Here is the title and abstract:
Learning Goals and Personal Learning in Practitioner Autoethnographic Inquiry: A Case Study
Autoethnography is an increasingly used method of inquiry in the social sciences that focuses upon an experience, or case, in the [...]
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If you just ran out of time to submit an abstract for the QI2010 (6th International Conference of Qualitative Inquiry), you are in luck — the deadline was just extended to January 15! You can find more information about it here.
Let me know if you plan to submit and / or attend. I already [...]
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In case you are planning to submit an abstract for the 6th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2010), time is running out — you have until tomorrow, 12/1! The call for papers / posters / panels and submission guidelines is here, and the actual submissions area is here.
After attending the conference for the first [...]
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