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The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access, with learning resources embedded and hyperlinked throughout to offer self-assessment activities and extra support: The qualitative approach is drawn from the constructivist paradigm (Bryman & Allen, 2011). This approach requires the researcher to avoid imposing their own perception of the meaning of social phenomena upon the respondent (Banister et al., 2011). The aim is to investigate how the respondent interprets their own reality (Bryman & Allen, 2011). This presents the challenge of creating a methodology that is framed by the respondent rather than by the researcher. An effective means by which to do this is through interviews, or texts, where the response to a question can be open (Feilzer, 2010). Nonaka, I., & Teece, D. J. (2001). Managing industrial knowledge: Creation, transfer and utilization. Sage.

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The surveys produce quantitative data that can be analysed empirically. Surveys are most commonly used to examine causative variables between different types of data. Marginson, S. (2018b). Public/private in higher education: A synthesis of economic and political approaches. Studies in Higher Education, 43, 322–337. Byrne, B. M. (2016). Structural equation modeling with AMOS: Basic concepts, applications, and programming. Routledge. Hathcoat, J. D., Meixner, C., & Nicholas, M. C. (2019). Ontology and epistemology. Handbook of Research Methods in Health Social Sciences, 99–116. Monette, D.R., Sullivan, T. J., & DeJong, C. R. (2005). Applied Social Research: A Tool for the Human Services, (6 th ed.), London:

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Experimental research refers to the strategy of creating a research process that examines the results of an experiment against the expected results (Saunders et al., 2007). It can be used in all areas of research, and usually involves the consideration of a relatively limited number of factors (Saunders et al., 2007). The relationship between the factors are examined, and judged against the expectation of the research outcomes. Henderson, K. A. (2011). Post-positivism and the pragmatics of leisure research. Leisure Sciences, 33, 341–346.

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