[ATTW-L] Taxonomy of Pre-Designed Courses Survey: Recruitment Email

[Shelley Rodrigo]

I sent this call for research participants out earlier this summer. I'm
sending it now again that most folks are back into their regular semester
grove. Thanks in advance for your time, energy, and perspectives!
Best,
Shelley Rodrigo

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 2:40 PM Shelley Rodrigo <shelley.rodrigo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Please forward this recruitment email to others who teach or administer
> online programs that use pre-designed (e.g., master, template, canned)
> courses.
>
> I hope your spring term wrapped up smoothly and that you are getting a
> little rest this summer.  I’m writing to request your voluntary
> participation in a study that I’m conducting (with Catrina Mitchum) on the
> language used in relation to pre-designed courses in higher education.
> Pre-Designed Courses (PDCs, sometimes known as master, template, or canned
> courses), long the standard in for-profit institutions, are becoming more
> common in non-profit, private, and state institutions. PDCs usually provide
> a significantly developed portion of the online course content from which
> an instructor teaches. The instructor is usually not from the team who
> developed the courses and is usually restricted from changing some to all
> of the pre-designed elements in the course template.
>
> The purpose of this study is to learn about the terminologies and
> taxonomies surrounding the use of PDCs. What are they called? How does what
> they are called construct and/or constrain the actions of the faculty,
> students, and administrators using them?
>
> Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary and would consist
> of completing a brief survey (10-15 minutes).
>
> If you are interested in participating in this study, please click on
> this link to the Consent form
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hyjazjbQaQA7PXR8MDPjOrT8-Gms5h3Ozcx8ZyVyaBM/edit?usp=sharing>
> for this study. The bottom of consent form will contain the link to the
> survey.
>
> Link to the consent form: http://bit.ly/2WzbdxR
>
> If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know!
>
> Best,
>
> Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo, PhD
>
> Associate Director Writing Program, Online Writing
>
> Associate Professor, Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English
>
> University of Arizona
>
> rrodrigo at email.arizona.edu
>
> Shelley Rodrigo
> Twitter: rrodrigo <http://twitter.com/rrodrigo>
>
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