Abstract
International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, Edmonton, Canada (February 18-20, 1999)
This first conference of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology turned out to be one of the most interesting academic meetings I have ever attended. For an educational technologist like me the interest in such a meeting was to develop an understanding of methods that might contribute to solving some of the problems of getting high quality teaching and learning software into the educational system. Educational technologists are a pragmatic lot and respond quickly to invitations of demonstrations of exciting software tools that may help them with their work. This, combined with a recent accidental collision with Elliot Eisner's book 'The Enlightened Eye,' and a long standing interest in the Scandinavian qualitative phenomenography method, all persuaded me to investigate.