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@drbexl @digitalfprint @fastech_uk @TELWinch #altc2012

Seeking to improve NSS Scores in Assessment and Feedback utilising Technological Solutions
Dr Bex Lewis (formerly) University of Winchester
with input from Dr Tansy Jessop, Yaz El-Hakim, Nicole McNab & Camille Shepherd, University of Winchester and Joelle Adams, Bath Spa University

http://thestudentsurvey.com
Entering its eighth year Universities, students unions or colleges also use results internally to facilitate best practice and enhance the student learning experience.

http://digitalfingerprint.co.uk/2009/07/webusability-2001-2002/

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/nss /nss_assessment_and_feedback_issues.pdf (2008)

Boud & Falchikov, 2008


assessment is not sufficiently equipping students to learn in situations in which teachers and examinations are not present to focus their attention. As a result, we are failing to prepare them for the rest of their lives. p3

http://www.testa.ac.uk

Nicole: http://youtu.be/GR9-uD_xWzA

...of this approach seems to be that lecturers are engaged and energised to tackle problems and implement locally-owned strategies.

http://fastech.ac.uk

Bexs Personal Learning Environment

http://diyubook.com/
Technology upsets the traditional hierarchies and categories of education. It can put the learner at the center of the educational process. Increasingly this means students will decide what they want to learn, when, where, and with whom; and they will learn by doing. p.x

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elear ning/assessmentandfeedback/fastech.aspx quantity of effort across the course quality and quantity of feedback usefulness of feedback and appropriate assessment

http://www.fastech.ac.uk/index.php/r esources/resource-box/case-studies

BODGIT
Bringing
Organisational Development Into IT

http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl/winchester-bodgitandy-wilson

Personalise feedback Return feedback faster More detailed feedback Highlight specific areas Peer feedback Tutor-student dialogue

Improve student effort Distribute student effort Encourage deep learning Student self-reflection Clarify goals and standards More authentic assessment

Student collaboration

Motivate students

E-Mail

Skype: India (& other!)

Google Docs

Project progress

http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl/ fastech-technology-pedagogy

http://www.slideshare.net/fastech http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl

http://blog.fastech.ac.uk

App-Sharing

F2F meetings, including staff/student development sessions

Tech-Savvy

FASTECH Safe Student Space

https://twitter.com/fastech_uk

It makes sense

Simple, but effective!

Digital feedback
Track changes and commenting Marking using video and audio screencasts

E-portfolios Electronic submission of assessed work

Various peer review and commenting tools


Social networking collaborative working Blogs

YouTube
Various features on smartphone, iPad and tablet apps Wikis

Any change involving new technologies


.will not be a single great act, but an accumulation of lots of events, activities and discussions over a period of time.
Fee, K. Delivering E-Learning (2009) Delivering E-Learning: A complete strategy for design, application and assessment London: Kogan Page, p 40.

www.fastech.ac.uk

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