Title: Explanation of Research Letter
Course: Dev_TOPKIT_SAMPLE_COURSE_Bauer_S_67

Dear <Replace - Course Title> Participant,

The <Replace -  Department Name> is continuously evaluating its web enhanced professional development course,<Replace - Course Title> . As a student enrolled in this course, you are in a unique position to help us. Your suggestions and opinions can provide us with valuable information as we continually improve future course offerings.

You will be given the opportunity to complete several anonymous surveys. Completing the survey is voluntary and you may omit any question you are not comfortable answering. However, we would greatly appreciate your thoughtful feedback and comments regarding your experience as you proceed through<Replace - Course Title> each week. Your insights can help us gauge what is working well and what we can improve.

We also wanted to make you aware that as a part of our ongoing evaluation of the program, we will be using some analytics that are automatically stored by <Replace - Your LMS> including the number of pages read, postings created and read, and accesses compiled from <Replace - Your LMS> accounts. Your postings will also be compiled as a group for future reference. These data are routinely collected by the <Replace - Your LMS> software, but we will examine these data for trends that again can help us to improve<Replace - Course Title> in the future.

Responses will remain anonymous. No identification will be collected and all individual data will be aggregated as a group for analyses purposes. Our goal is to continue to improve the faculty development process in the future and we will maintain anonymity for all data collected.

Thank you for taking the time and effort to assist in our professional development offering. We appreciate your willingness to participate, which will ultimately improve online instruction at <Replace -  Institutional Name>. If you have questions or complaints regarding this research please contact your<Replace - Course Title> instructors.

Sincerely,

<Replace - Department Name>

<Replace -  Institutional Name>

<Updates this section according to your institutional research methods>

Note: Research at the <Replace -  Institutional Name> involving human participants is carried out under the oversight of the Institutional Review Board (IRB). This research has been reviewed and approved by the IRB. For information about the rights of people who take part in research, please contact: Institutional Review Board,<Replace -  Institutional Name>, Office of Research & Commercialization, <insert address> or by telephone at <insert - phone>.

TOPKit Sample Course created by Sue Bauer, John Raible, and Jessica Tojo. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.