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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dear venerable educators and researchers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496">With Dr. Ghulam Raza’s permission, I’m writing to request your participation in my project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496">My name is Saima Nomaan, and I am a doctoral postgraduate researcher at the University of Exeter’s, Doctor of Education in TESOL (Ed.D.) programme in the UK.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> I am kindly
requesting </span><span style="color:#2F5496">the</span><span style="color:#2F5496"> English faculty’s participation in the doctoral research study that I am conducting titled:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>Professional Development for E-Learning
and Instructional Technology: Perspectives of Higher Education ELT faculty in Pakistan</i>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#2F5496"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#2F5496">My</span><span style="color:#2F5496"> intention is to:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#2F5496;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">find out the important features of the faculty professional development programmes related to educational technology (Ed-Tech) and E-learning in universities in Pakistan<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#2F5496;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">explore the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of English language teachers in higher education about their professional development training related to E-Learning and teaching with technology<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#2F5496;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">explore the motivation of faculty to engage in such PD and the relationship between this PD training and faculty promotions<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="color:#2F5496">investigate if there is a need for reform in the current PD system and the Ed-Tech and E-learning related PD programmes need to be redesigned<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5597;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The study involves completing one online survey, one online interview and completing one Blob Tree drawing. For the start, I need at least 300 surveys from Pakistani higher education
ELT faculty. I have only 63 </span><span style="color:#2F5496;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">completed
</span><span style="color:#2F5597;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">surveys so far and </span>
<span style="color:#2F5496;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">148 incomplete ones. Since the survey is completely anonymous, there’s no way of following up with the participants who didn’t complete. Therefore, I
</span><span style="color:#2F5597;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">greatly need your support. Please complete yourself if you haven’t already, and distribute the attached survey participant request among your faculty, colleagues, and friends, or contacts in KPK
and Balochistan and encourage them to participate in the study. I will truly appreciate your support in this. Many thanks in advance. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ydp3f33ff3yiv1343361908msonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2F5597">The survey is around 25-30 minutes long and comes with an incentive for the participant (mentioned in the attached pdf.) as a token of thanks for spending time on my survey.
Your support will greatly help me collect the invaluable required data.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ydp3f33ff3yiv1343361908msonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2F5597">Here is the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:red"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexeterssis.eu.qualtrics.com%2Fjfe%2Fform%2FSV_9NQExTusJvq2tb8&data=04%7C01%7Csn354%40exeter.ac.uk%7C52be1f49e3274123050d08d9dcb10f78%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C637783475288824818%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=7Ro6QGKB8J2EyHp2x4CvAz7huyNMrF%2Fg2nF3TnAHvaE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" title="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexeterssis.eu.qualtrics.com%2Fjfe%2Fform%2FSV_9NQExTusJvq2tb8&data=04%7C01%7Csn354%40exeter.ac.uk%7Ce7ddc26f1abe4fc939d208d9dca5b101%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C63778342647"><span style="color:red">Survey
Link</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2F5597">again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5597">Best regards,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span style="color:#2F5496"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Saima Nomaan
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
Ed.D. TESOL (PRG4EDUEDU05)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5597;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Graduate School of Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5597;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">College of Social Sciences and International Studies<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#2F5496;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eprofile.ex.ac.uk%2Fsaimanomaan&data=04%7C01%7Csn354%40exeter.ac.uk%7C52be1f49e3274123050d08d9dcb10f78%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C637783475288824818%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=xkvZb5gh1Vu2iZZuwrte80sDgeZ2NyvPYkByW3mDM48%3D&reserved=0" title="http://www.eprofile.ex.ac.uk/saimanomaan"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2F5597;background:white">My
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