Thank you for your interest in this study which explores Foundational values, principles, and/or skills for Open Educational Practices. This research is being conducted by Dr. Michael Paskevicius, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Victoria. Michael can be contacted at any time at mpaskevi@uvic.ca. This research is being conducted as part of a GO-GN Fellowship.
 
For every survey completed, I will be donating $5 CAD, up to a maximum of $1000 to the aid effort in Ukraine. This donation will be made to the Canadian Red Cross Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Appeal (https://donate.redcross.ca/page/100227/-/1)
 
Importance, Purpose, and Objectives
The goal of this project is to identify the main values, principles, and/or skills of open educational practice that we can engage new teachers with, by inviting open education practitioners around the world to share their thoughts and perspectives. The survey will ask open practitioners to identify the principles and values most important to open education practices in the areas of pedagogy, technology, and content, as well as creating space for principles and values identified outside of these three categories
 
What is Involved
The review of this consent form and completion of a survey is expected to take approximately 3-5 minutes. The survey is web-based and will ask you a set of questions to identify your views on the foundational values, principles, and/or skills needed to develop Open Educational Practices with early career educators.
 
Inconvenience, Risks, and Benefits
Participation in this study should cause minimal inconvenience to you. Aside from offering your time and willingness to participate, there are no additional inconveniences. There are no known or anticipated risks to you by participating in this research.
 
The findings from this study should result in a robust community informed framework and I intend to make the model openly available, as well as share the results at conferences, and through open access research publications. Participants may be interested and are welcome to use the framework in their own teacher education or professional development activities.
 
Voluntary Participation and On-going Consent
Your participation in this research must be completely voluntary. Once you have participated, it will be logistically impossible to remove individual survey data as no personal identifiable information is stored with each record.
 
Anonymity and Confidentiality
The principal researcher will protect access to the survey data. No personal information will be collected. Your confidentiality and the confidentiality of the data will be protected by keeping this data stored on an encrypted hard drive.
 
Dissemination of Results
It is anticipated that the results of this study will be shared with others through research papers, websites, and conference presentations or posters.
 
Use and Disposal of Data
Data from this study will be disposed of ten years after the study is completed.
 
Contacts
Dr. Michael Paskevicius (mpaskevi@uvic.ca)
UVic Ethics (ethics@uvic.ca)

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