Help:Access
= Accessing the Manual =
Reading the manual online
For reading, the materials are presented in a number of different ways.
For reading online, you have these options:
- On the RECOUP website itself, the manual is presented in html format, click here to access it. We hope that you find this a clutter free, easy to read version.
- Internet connectivity and low bandwidth are serious issues at many less resourced institutions, and if you find that that the html version is too slow to use, you can use this version instead. It has very small pages (conforming to low bandwidth accessibility guidelines), and you can turn images off. You can also access this version through the switch to plain text link, which will switch the whatever page you are reading to plain text.
- For full interactivity, you can of course also read the text on the wiki, and you can access the wiki here.
Downloading the manual
You can also download the manual:
- You can download the manual as a single pdf file, cf. here.
- While browsing the wiki, you can download individual pages as pdf, using the inbuilt pdf generation.
- When browsing the wiki, you can of course also download the wiki text, using the edit links for pages or various sections.
- You can order printed copies from a print-on-demand service.
Using a local mirror
If you wish to make the manual available to your students locally, for instance while running a course using these materials at your institution, but you are suffering from poor internet connectivity and low bandwidth, we can offer you an easy-to-install mirroring solution, that provides mirroring for your local area network.
The mirror will download manual pages on demand, and will keep pages locally available even if your internet connection is slow or fails. If you have a lot of people on your local area network wishing to access the manual, but you have poor internet connectivity, you should consider this. Please contact Bjoern for further information.
Singal, N., and Jeffery, R. (2008). Qualitative Research Skills Workshop: A Facilitator's Reference Manual, http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/RECOUP, Cambridge: RECOUP (Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, http://recoup.educ.cam.ac.uk/). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. (original page)
