Please read the following and then complete and submit the online form which follows

CORE Education is carrying out an evaluation of the SLENZ project for the Project Team. We will be reporting to the SLENZ Project Team, and may publish our findings.

The aims of the evaluation are to:

1. understand what could have been done better during the design, development and delivery of the two pilot learning activities in Second Life
2. understand what worked well during the design, development and delivery of the two pilot learning activities in Second Life
3. identify good practice that may help others design, develop and deliver learning experinces in MUVEs.

In order to carry out the evaluation, we are asking key stakeholders – project team members, educators and students involved in the project to agree to be involved in the evaluation process. We ask that you agree to relevant data being collected about your involvement in the project. Data collection could include:

1. Online and/or paper based questionnaires (especially targeted at learners)
2. Stakeholder interviews – face-to-face, phone or via VoIP communication (such as Skype). Data will be collected by audio recording and written note taking
3. Observation/interaction within the virtual world
4. Records of virtual world chats and/or audio recordings
5. Project documentation e.g from Google documents
6. SLENZ blog
7. Attendance at project face-to-face meetings.

All data will be confidential to the CORE Research Team, and will be stored securely on CORE’s premises. Data will be destroyed within five years from the end of the evaluation.

The resulting reports may include quotes from interviews etc, but will not identify people who take part in the evaluation.

IF YOU ARE A STUDENT, we hope that you will agree to participate in this evaluation, however, should you decide that you wish to withdraw from this study, you may do so at any time by informing me by e-mail. Your withdrawal will be confidential between us, and will not have any consequences to your academic course record.

IF YOU ARE A SLENZ EDUCATOR OR PROJECT TEAM MEMBER, I understand that you agreed to take part in an evaluation when you joined the project. I look forward to working with you.

This evaluation has been approved by CORE Education’s Ethical Group, which includes members of the academic research community as well as members of CORE’s research staff who are not involved in this study.

If you have any questions about the evaluation, please contact me at CORE Education Ltd at the following e-mail address: michael.winter@core-ed.net, or by phone at 03 379 0715.

Please complete and submit this online consent form

Thanks very much for agreeing to take part!