Another challenging element added to this course was non-course related.  Most MET students work full-time whilst studying; it is important to impart the careful juggling of time we all must manage. I was finishing my teaching job in Seoul, Korea, getting all my family's personal belongings ready to be shipped to China (my next teaching destination), and also planning for a big North American road trip spanning over 4 months. This proved challenging, especially for the collaborative work in this course, because so many of my group members resided in different time zones across the globe. However, thanks to digital technologies like Meeting Planner and Google Hangouts, this was easily overcome. Having awesome group members also helped, some of which I would work with later, in other courses. In fact, these group members were some of the few that I got to meet up with face-to-face whilst travelling in Vancouver. 

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More importantly, this assignment taught me the importance of candor in research. By being humble and having the foresight to state limitations, it adds a layer of honesty and credibility to the research. It also provides insight as to where developments in the research must begin from next. These are important lessons that carry over to teaching. The first is being humble, honest and open to celebrate your limitations with your learners. The second is using prior knowledge to inform the direction of learning.  

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At this point in the course, I had also come to realize that action research was the best fit for my framed research question in my proposal. Quite frankly, the thought of a quantitative research study daunts me to this day.