Contributors Start Here: https://bit.ly/tsl_eris Submit De-Identified Transcripts here: https://forms.gle/a2JkMYDypcHuHcCV7 **Emergency Remote Instruction Study (ERIS)** *Interview educators | Share de-identified transcripts |Create a national dataset* Education researchers around the country are interviewing educators about their remote learning experiences during the COVID-19 school closures. Each individual team only has the time and resources to interview a few teachers, but together, we can capture a broad and granular perspective on teaching during the pandemic. At the MIT [Teaching Systems Lab][1], we’re making de-identified transcripts of our interviews available to the public in an open source repository, and **we’re inviting researchers around the country to contribute to this new dataset.** The insights from this research will help decision-makers at the classroom-, school-, and system-level respond wisely to the pandemic’s persistence, re-emergence--or to the next event that forces us to shift to remote schooling. **Here’s how to participate:** Step 1: **Craft a consent form** that allows you to post de-identified transcripts of educator interviews to an open repository with a [CC:0 (public domain) license][2] - [Our example consent form is here][3], but of course, you need approval from your own IRB. - (Facing IRB hurdles? Contact us about joining our team as a volunteer. eris_project@mit.edu) Step 2: **Interview teachers** - Feel free to adapt our [intake survey][4]. - Our interview protocol has [six core questions][5]: 1) what is remote learning supposed to look like at your school? 2) what are you actually doing? 3) what’s working? 4) what’s not working? 5) how are students responding? 6) what lessons will you carry forward into 2020-2021? We encourage contributors to ask variations of these six questions, along with your own questions and probes. - See our [core interview protocol here][6] - See our [full interview protocol here][7]. Feel free to use or modify as you see fit. Step 3: **Transcribe and de-identify your interviews.** - (Facing financial difficulties? We have some transcription funds: eris_project@mit.edu) - Remove all references that might allow someone to identify the interviewee or their school Step 4: **Submit your de-identified transcripts** [to our database through this form][8], or contact us at eris_project@mit.edu. For each interview, we’ll ask you to - Give your interviewee a unique pseudonym (please keep track of the connections between pseudonyms and interviewees in case we need more metadata) - Provide basic demographic data about the interviewee including school role, subject area, grade level, region, urbanicity, teacher race, teacher gender, and school demographics - Select from a set of pre-defined tags around key interview themes - Add your own tags - Upload the transcript - Certify that you have permission to upload the file - Provide your name and contact information Step 5: **Use the transcript database** to do important, impactful, groundbreaking research! You can find transcripts, codebooks, and our resources in the folder below. Submit your de-identified transcripts here: https://forms.gle/a2JkMYDypcHuHcCV7 [1]: http://tsl.mit.edu [2]: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ [3]: https://osf.io/gmf5c/ [4]: https://osf.io/46jm9/ [5]: https://osf.io/qz9s3/ [6]: https://osf.io/qz9s3/ [7]: https://osf.io/u67zy/ [8]: https://forms.gle/3oJJhovj4Lzg1acX7