‘Lurkers’ in the Fashion Business School: A study of learning participation in Online Classrooms

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This dissertation researches learning in online classrooms. Those who participate are known as ‘posters’, those who remain silent, ‘lurkers’. Online learning has grown exponentially since 2020, due to Covid-19 and use of technology. Education can be accessed via internet platforms in real-time or asynchronously. This began as a portfolio of how I taught online, grew to a pilot study and then to an investigation focusing on those who identify as ‘lurkers’ to understand how they learn. The methodology follows an interpretivist approach. This was deliberate to give qualitative insight to balance the abundance of existing quantitative data which is often biased presenting a negative view of those who only participate infrequently, or not at all

Presenter: Stephanie Liberman, Senior Lecturer (London College of Fashion (UAL))

Session type: Case Study