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Conducting research in online spaces can be challenging, but rewarding. Online environments often seem like brave new worlds filled with unknown and exciting areas for discovery. By exploring existing qualitative approaches to studying learning in formal and informal online spaces, researchers will be able to better understand the development of multimethod approaches.

Readers can expect to see how examples of online learning, from initial design to data collection to data analysis, are addressed in light of the porous boundaries that loosely separate online and offline worlds (Burnett, 2011; Burnett & Merchant, 2014). This chapter provides an overview of seminal constructs that impact qualitative inquiry—namely mental models, research traditions, and inquiry paradigms—and offers insight into methodological shifts as well as researcher agency and creativity.