Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:11:04 +0000
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Dear Colleagues

I am writing to ask for your co-operation in contributing to our pilot 
research into e-learning. The project is being managed by Cumbria 
Institute of the Arts for the Art Design Media Subject Centre of the 
Higher Education Academy, and further details are provided in the next 
section of this e-mail.

We very much hope you are willing to take part.  All you need to do is 
to click on the link provided and you will be taken directly to the 
survey. It will take you about 6 minutes to complete, and when you 
signal you are done it will send the information to us automatically.

The Art Design Media Subject Centre and the project research team 
extends sincere thanks in anticipation of your contribution.

Dr. Cheri Logan
Project Manager
Distributed e-learning in Art, Design and Media Research Project



Survey into distributed e-learning in art, design and media

Purpose of the study

I am pleased to invite you to participate in the above survey, which is 
part of a research initiative currently being sponsored by the ADM-HEA. 
The project is a large-scale national inquiry into the use of new 
technologies in these subject areas, and we hope the research will 
illuminate the innovations, challenges and
potential offered to the sector by the rapidly changing context in 
which our practice occurs.

This survey is the widest-ranging of the research strategies that will 
be used in the project, and is aimed at finding out about the contexts, 
resources and ideas that underpin learning. Crucial to the success of 
the study is the inclusion of the voices and experiences of those who 
support learning and teaching on a daily basis. The insights that you 
can offer are therefore very significant to us, and we hope that you 
will agree to take part. In this way we hope to be able to represent 
the interests of people like you, and of your students, in our final 
reports and
recommendations.

How to take part in the survey

Please click the following link to start the survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=830311467865

If the above link is unclickable then please copy it and paste it to 
the address bar of your internet browser. It will take approximately 6 
minutes to complete the survey. You will be able to move between pages 
and edit your answers using the 'Previous' and 'Next' buttons located 
on the bottom of each page until you click the 'Done' button on the 
last page.

If you have to leave the survey in the middle for any reason, please 
click the above link in this email again and you will be taken back to 
the point you left off. After completing the survey once, you will not 
be able to do the survey again, however you will be able to edit your 
answers.

Ethics and conduct of the research

The project is committed to honouring procedures outlined in the British
Educational Research Association's protocols for ethical conduct of 
research projects. We therefore seek your informed consent for use of 
information that is collected in the survey, and will assume that your 
participation constitutes agreement to ethical use being made of the 
data that you provide. We guarantee that the data will not be put to 
further use (i.e. beyond the bounds of the current study) without the 
consent of respondents, and that it will be securely held (for access 
only by members of the immediate research team and its administrators). 
It is likely that the overall findings of the study will enter the 
public domain, but we
will not identify any individuals in reporting on the research and 
undertake to preserve the anonymity of respondents.

Thank you for taking part.