Hello! I want to start a question for a research topic and I want your opinion on What strategies are the most useful and facilitate distance learning for communities in dispersed areas?
Yo utilizo el Aula Virtual de Salud del Ministerio de Salud Pública de la República de Cuba, soportada en Moodle como plataforma tecnológica en el desarrollo de Entornos Virtuales de Enseñanza -Aprendizaje.
The strategy will depend on a number of criteria. I would first look at the type of research question: is it about a well known research field, therefore can you formulate some specific questions / hypotheses? In this case you could design an online questionnaire, mainly based on Likert-type answer options. How to get the link of the online questionnaire to your target group will be something you have to work out.
If you are researching rather new areas then I would opt for semi-structured online interviews. In this case you will need some online conference tool, most give you a one month' free trial. Again access to your target group is crucial. Additionally, you will essentially be conducting qualitative research which is more time consuming and requires more experience than quantitative research.
I believe that the essential thing to improve online learning in dispersed areas is the improvement of connection networks, since for example in my region, I am from Extremadura, Spain, in cities with less than 5000 inhabitants, the fixed connection It is very slow and they must work with a mobile connection, which is often very expensive. Once a good connection is available, the important thing is to publicize the online training model and encourage its use, since it is often unknown to both students and teachers in dispersed areas.