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Given that pragmatic research connects research design and contexts, researchers have opportunities to take creative and agentive approaches to data collection and analysis. In this section, we introduce the concept of remix as it has been understood in literacy research. Then, we apply the remix framework pragmatically to mixed approaches to suggest that researchers can find the most appropriate and effective methods for their study when they can customize their approach.

Drawing on Creswell’s (2015) concept of multimethod research, this section introduces how researchers might draw on multiple forms of qualitative data from networked field sites. Creswell (2015) indicated that researchers should not conflate mixed methods research with multimethod research. As he explained in A Concise Introduction to Mixed Methods Research, “When multiple forms of qualitative data are collected, the term is multimethod research, not mixed methods research” (p. 3, emphasis in original). Using multiple aspects of various traditions and data sources can lead to methodologically rich inquiries of online learning.