Free High School Science Texts Survey Announcement
The OER project Free High School Science Texts (FHSST) wrote the announcement below to solicit participants to its volunteer survey.
- Calling All Volunteers:
- As contributors to FHSST, we hope that you will be able to help us in completing a short survey (only 9 questions!) about being a volunteer on FHSST.
- The survey can be downloaded by clicking on the link on the homepage of FHSST (www.fhsst.org).The aim of the survey is to maximise volunteer cooperation and productivity. The surveys will be kept anonymous (so please be honest!) and the data will be shared by FHSST.
- We would really appreciate your help with this and would love to get your responses by _10 August_ so that the data can be analysed as soon as possible! You can fill out your survey and email it back to me at [email address] when you are done. FHSST is currently the most advanced (in terms of production of resources) open content project in existence and it would be great if we could help other projects get going smoothly and productively as well!
- Best regards,
- [Name of OER project leader]
Teachers' Domain Survey Announcement
The OER project Teachers' Domain wrote the announcement below to solicit participants to its user survey. The announcement was emailed to its registered users.
- Teachers’ Domain wants to hear from you!
- Teachers’ Domain, in conjunction with the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), is conducting a survey to understand how you are using Teachers’ Domain resources, and what keeps you coming back to the site or hinders you from visiting more often. The survey should only take approximately 4-7 minutes, and will help us to continue to develop tools and processes to enhance your use experiences. Please help us make our resources better serve you by completing this brief survey! To start the survey, click here.[insert survey web link]
Pointers
- In soliciting your participants through an announcement, you should explain the purpose of the data collection effort, the deadline for participation, how the data will be used, anonymity issues, and the logistics and practicalities of participation (such as how the survey should be returned and to whom).
- As with the FHSST example above, the announcement can set an inspirational tone and inspire people to participate by reminding them of the importance of the OER project and its successes or anticipated successes.
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