The course was very helpful to me in terms of getting a handle on the types of technology that are avaiable to use for research. I began the course with the knowledge that bibiographic mangagers exist, and that's about it. The qualtitative research courses do not delve into technology much at all, so this course is a useful supplement. I'm grateful that I decided to take it so early in my program.
I have already used ExpressScribe and I definitely plan to use EndNote and WEFT QDA in the future. I appreciated the nice variety of software that was introduced because I think everyone will ultimately have different needs based on their particular research. Because of that, I wouldn't suggest eliminating any of the tools that were covered. I can't really imagine myself using Evernote, for example, but that doesn't mean it won't be useful to someone else.
In the future it might be nice to load any of the CAQDAS that has a free trial onto the lab computers so that we could compare them to WEFT QDA - maybe try coding a bit in each to see if there is a significant difference. I don't know if there would be a problem with reloading the free trial each quarter though. At least I know what is out there now and have the option to do that on my own.
Overall, the course was great. Thanks Laurie!
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