Share Paper: A t(r)opical journey: Using text mining to explore teachers’ experiences in the Great Online Transition
Abstract: Gaining a wider and more nuanced understanding of teachers' experiences and perception of the transition to online teaching and learning can inform ongoing support for sustaining these practices and/or continuing to develop new practices after COVID-19. To do this, we used a mixed automated text analysis and manual thematic coding approaches to analyze a portion of 663 teachers' open-ended questionnaire responses addressing their experiences and perceptions of online teaching. The initial results revealed 10 different clusters in the data, each with a possible underlying theme. We argue that these themes provide a 'map' of the data and point to a ...