e-assessment (f)or learning

The other thing that was discussed at yesterday’s ‘Analysing feedback’ session at the JISC online conference ‘Innovating e-Learning: shaping the future’ was the role of praise in feedback. (more…)

I’m participating in the ‘activity week’ of the JISC online conference ‘Innovating e-Learning: shaping the future’ and yesterday I caught just 30 minutes of an incredibly interesting session on ‘Analysing feedback’. I have just watched the recording of the rest of it, but wish I’d been able to participate fully. (more…)

I’m just back from my second attendance at a JISC Learning and Teaching Practice Experts Group meeting. It was excellent – it is inspiring to be surrounded by people who know such a lot about learning and teaching and, more importantly, actually care about the student experience.

Half the day was spent discussing some of the early outcomes from the new JISC Assessment and Feedback Programme. I was involved in an unsuccessful bid to this programme, but can truly say that I am happy not to have been successful (not sure what my colleagues think!).  I’m just SO busy and it is nice to learn from others rather than being in the thick of it. (more…)