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Data Collection Procedures
As the sole researcher, I conducted a series of three phenomenological interviews with
nine participants to gain insights into their experiences in HyFlex courses. The 10th participant
informed me from the start she would be traveling and unavailable for three interviews, so I
conducted only two interviews with this participant. Each 1-hour interview was conducted using
Zoom. All interviews were recorded, and the audio was transcribed to text for coding using
Otter.ai software. Once the interviews were transcribed, the original recordings were destroyed,
and the text transcripts were imported into NVivo software for coding and analysis. Deleting the
original audiovisual recordings from my hard drive and ensuring no copy is stored in the Zoom
cloud helped protect participants’ anonymity.
Figure 3 illustrates the general sequence of this
study for data collection and analysis.
Figure 3
Data Collection Sequence
Participant Recruitment
and selection
• Through email
via gate
keepers
• Through
professionlal
networking
sites
• Demographic
survey
for participant
selection
Phenomenological
Interviews with students
• To put
