Invitation Letter [Version 1.0]
November 17, 2022
Dear colleague,
Hope this email finds you well.
I am reaching out hoping to share with you a three-year research project and to invite you to engage with a new platform called ResearchIC.com – one core deliverable from the project.
- Research: Impact of Online Journal Club on Educational Research Literacy: Towards New Model, Measurement, and Practice is a research and development project funded by the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (22K13755) and the Moodle Association of Japan MAJ R&D Grant 2022. This poster introduces the four research components in the project: literature review, interviews, surveys, and experiments.
- Development: ResearchIC (https://researchic.com) allows researchers and research students in the education science domain to host and attend online journal club events and share the research literature reading experience with each other and with the global audience.
I am at present seeking:
- Research collaborators: to engage with the four research activities mentioned above.
- Project collaborators: to engage with ResearchIC development in the education domain by inviting educational researchers and research students on board.
- 100 Online Journal Club Event hosts: to host online journal club on ResearchIC in one of the two waves (January 2023 to March 2023, or April 2023 to March 2024). All events are hosted on ResearchIC, which is a customized Moodle environment. The learning analytics of an event (mainly anonymized log data) will be shared with its host to support their research purposes. Check the Open call page.
- 100 Online Journal Club Event attendants: to participate in the events as learners/audience. Check the Open call page.
I would like to invite you to host one online journal club event between January 2023 and March 2023 and invite your students to participate in the event. You are also most welcome as researcher collaborator or project collaborator if it interests you and fits your schedule.
Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.
I look forward to hearing from you.
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Jingjing Lin (Ph.D., Asst. Prof.)
Center for IT-based Education
Toyohashi University of Technology
E-mail:lin@cite.tut.ac.jp
Hibarigaoka-1-1 Tenpaku-cho, Toyohashi, Aichi 441-8580, Japan
Invitation Letter [Version 2.0]
November 18, 2022
[Note: this version was used to invite
96 educational researchers on November 18, 2022; revised on November 24, 2022]
Email title
Greeting from Japan: Invitation to host online journal club events for postgraduate students in education
Email body
Dear Prof./Dr. FirstName LastName,
Hope this email finds you well.
I am Jingjing Lin, an assistant professor at Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan) and the principal investigator of a three-year R&D project involving the use of online journal club events to train research literacy in the education domain.
The project’s primary initiative is to host 100 Online Journal Club Events, abbreviated as “100 OJC Events”. It intends to invite and collaborate with 100 educational researchers from around the world, to co-create and deliver online journal club events. These OJC events are primarily designed for postgraduate research students. The purpose is to investigate whether using OJC events could improve educational research literacy levels of higher degree research students.
I’d like to extend a sincere invitation to you, a renowned educational researcher, to host one of the 100 OJC Events. More details are available on the Open call page. All events are hosted on our self-developed proprietary platform ResearchIC (https://researchic.com), which is a customized Moodle environment. The learning analytics of your OJC event (primarily log data that has been anonymized) will be shared with you to support your own potential research.
You can sign up to the platform using your email, or directly sign in using your existing Google, LinkedIn, or Facebook accounts. Once you agree to host and your account is created on the platform, I will assign you to your event as the host.
The project also seeks collaborators if you are available.
- Research collaborators: participate in the four research activities listed in the poster.
- Project collaborators: to contribute to the growth of ResearchIC.com as an OJC hosting platform service.
Please feel free to forward this email to your students, coworkers, or anyone else who may find it interesting or useful.
Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.
I look forward to hearing from you.
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Jingjing Lin (Ph.D., Asst. Prof.)
Center for IT-based Education
Toyohashi University of Technology
E-mail:lin.jingjing.qc@tut.jp
Hibarigaoka-1-1 Tenpaku-cho, Toyohashi, Aichi 441-8580, Japan
Step 2: thank you Email
(underscored texts below need attention/actions)
Subject: [100 OJC Events] Thank you for being an event host: What is next?
Dear Prof./Dr. xxx,
Thank you very much for agreeing to host one of the "100 OJC Events" with other fantastic educational researchers in the world.
As a first step of this agreement, please visit https://researchic.com to sign up using your email, or directly sign in using your existing Google, LinkedIn, or Facebook accounts. If you have done so, I am grateful for your efficiency.
In the coming months, you are expected to submit three things to the ResearchIC platform. As a result, there are three deadlines to respect.
- Select a journal article and share the URL to it
- Submit video 1 (around 30 minutes)
- Submit video 2 (around 30 minutes)
Your biography page is here. The coordinator will update it. If you want to provide the information directly, please directly communicate with the coordinator.
Your event page is here.
Meanwhile, please provide your bank information on this page before January 15, 2023, in order to receive the honorarium payment of around 10,000 yen as an event host for the project.
In case of any problem or any need for a virtual meeting, please do not hesitate to book a meeting with me directly on my calendar. Click the highlighted/circled date, and you will see my available time slots on display.
I look forward to the collaboration and your event.
Best regards,
Dr. Jingjing Lin
Step 2: thank you email (中文版)
(邮件中的下划线内容需要注意编辑)
主题:
[百场在线期刊俱乐部] 感谢您成为活动主持人:下一步是什么?
正文:
尊敬的xxx教授/博士:
欢迎您加入百场在线期刊俱乐部活动,与世界上其他优秀的教育研究人员一起向全球教育领域的研究生分享教育学术期刊论文的阅读经验。
作为该期刊俱乐部主持人,请使用已经发给您的账号访问https://researchic.com。您也可以使用电子邮件进行注册,或直接使用谷歌、领英或脸书账户登录。如果是后者,请联络我以重新绑定你账户和你的活动。如果您没有收到任何账号信息,请联系我。
在未来几个月里,您需要向ResearchIC平台提交三个内容,请务必在对应的三个提交期限之前完成。
- 选择一篇已发表的同侪评审期刊的高质量文章并分享其URL(截止日期:2023年1月10日)
- 提交视频1(约30分钟)(截止日期:2023年1月31日)
- 提交视频2(约30分钟)(截止日期:2023年2月28日)
Cindy Liang女士/Niki Chu Ji女士将作为您的期刊俱乐部活动的协调人,她也在本邮件的抄送名单里。相信她会跟进您的参与,并提供最好的支持。
这是您的个人信息页,协调人将负责更新它。如果您想直接提供信息,请与协调人沟通。这是您的在线期刊俱乐部活动页面。
同时,请在2023年1月15日之前在这个页面提供您的银行信息,以便收到作为活动主持人的约10,000日元的酬金。
如果有任何问题需要与我在线会议来探讨,请直接在我的日历上预订日期和时间,点击高亮的日期,就会看到可以预订的时间段。
我非常荣幸能有您这样优秀的教育研究工作者加入到这场全球百场在线期刊俱乐部活动当中来,非常期待看到您的贡献和成果。
敬具,
林晶晶博士
Dear George,
Thank you very much for agreeing to host one of the "100 OJC Events" with other fantastic educational researchers in the world.
As a first step of this agreement, please visit https://researchic.com to sign up using your email, or directly sign in using your existing Google, LinkedIn, or Facebook accounts.
After you sign in to the platform, you can visit the Action Guide for Hosts for detailed guidance on the next steps. Overall, you are expected to submit three things to the ResearchIC platform. As a result, there are three deadlines to respect.
- Select a journal article and share the URL to it
- Submit video 1 (at least 15 minutes)
- Submit video 2 (at least 15 minutes)
Your biography page is here. If you want to provide the information directly, please contact me. Your event page is here.
Please kindly respond to the following three activities in order to allow the accounting staff at my university to process the payment.
(A) Data entry by hosts for the Honorarium calculation
(B) Required Information for making bank remittance
(C) Please submit a CV of you using the given file format
I look forward to the collaboration and your event.
Best regards,
Dr. Jingjing Lin
Step 9: email to host
Dear Prof./Dr. xxxx,
Thank you so much for respecting the deadlines of three tasks in hosting one of the 100 OJC Events. Now the event page is ready to invite the audience from the world to learn from you. You can access the event page below:
- URL of the event
I would like to invite you to share this event link to your Social Media networks, colleagues, students, and anyone that might be interested in this learning opportunity.
If you have some more time, you can post some questions in the forum to inspire the audience into critical thinking when reading the selected paper. Once there are questions or discussions from the attendants, you can also choose to engage with their conversation in the forum.
- URL of the forum on the event page
The Certificate of Service is available now to be downloaded from the following page:
Meanwhile, please kindly check the status of the bank transfer from Toyohashi University of Technology to you and share with me the status of your payment's arrival on the page "Payment to hosts"
It has been a fabulous opportunity to work with you and learn from you in 100 OJC Events.
I would like to sincerely express my gratitutde towards your contribution, and look forward to your further engagement with events on ResearchIC.
Best regards,
Dr. Jingjing Lin
诚邀您参加 [全球百场在线期刊俱乐部]
尊敬的xxx老师,
您好!请接受我来自日本豊橋技術科学大学的诚挚问候。我是一名助理教授,名叫林晶晶。写这封邮件,实在是冒昧打扰您,主要目的是想邀请您加入我正在组织的[全球百场在线期刊俱乐部]系列讲座活动。
这个活动获得了日本学术振兴会(Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)的科学研究经费支持(22K13755),它致力于组织世界上优秀的教育研究人员汇聚一堂,用在线期刊俱乐部的活动方式向全球教育领域的研究生分享教育学术期刊论文的阅读经验。这是一个综合了研究与开发的项目,所以它不只是要开发平台(https://researchic.com),组织期刊文章阅读活动,也要执行相应的与研究素养培训有关的研究活动。
截至今天,已有来自包括美国,澳大利亚,中国香港,中国,中国台湾,日本,奥地利,英国,爱尔兰,南非在内的21位教育研究人员加入了这个活动。其中一些人已经完成了分配的录制两个视频的任务,其内容可以在ResearchIC平台上免费观看。所有参与这个活动的研究人员制作的视频,也将发布在B站上:搜索“研究制造”。
如果您对参加这个活动感兴趣,请回复这封邮件。我将发送细节给您。感谢您阅读这封邮件,也非常欢迎您将这条消息分享给同事和学生。期待您的回复和参与。
此致,
敬礼
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林晶晶博士
IT活用教育センター (CITE, Center for IT-based Education)
国立大学法人豊橋技術科学大学 (Toyohashi University of Technology)
TEL:0532-44-1308
(Ext. 3050)
E-mail:lin@cite.tut.ac.jp
Room: IMC209
〒441-8580 豊橋市天伯町雲雀ヶ丘1-1 (Hibarigaoka-1-1 Tenpakucho, Toyohashi, Aichi 441-8580, Japan)