ONLINE GROUP TALK

perspectives and challenges of the technique

Abstract

The new coronavirus pandemic has caused substantial changes in people's lives, whether professionally, personally or academically. In order to maintain the restrictive measures of social distancing designed by the World Health Organization-WHO in 2020, the researchers were encouraged to create methodological strategies for the production of data for their research: those strategies, which so far would be carried out in person, went through modifications and/or adjustments to be performed virtually and/or online. That said, this academic paper aims to discuss the limits and possibilities for carrying out the online conversation group as a technique to produce research data in the educational field. This investigation necessarily implies in delimiting: a) research approach, b) digital tool; c) schedule; d) participating subjects; e) content; f) time. The result of the current study shows that the online conversation group is considered as a technique of sharing personal and professional experiences that encourages dialogue, reflection, training, etc. However, it requires from the researcher a prior planning of each action that this technique requires, to ensure the participation of people without major technical complications which make it unfeasible and/or prejudice their full participation and interaction with the group, in order to produce the data for the analysis and conclusion of the research.