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“Did they use it, and did it help?” Exploring how students engage with interactive online feedback resources between formative and summative assignment submissions in a first-year nursing degree module.
Rationale: Formative feedback is a key component of nursing education, supporting both academic and practical skill development. However, feedback is consistently reported as an area of dissatisfaction within higher education in the UK, with both students and lecturers feeling dissatisfied with the feedback process. The feedback provided needs to not only identify areas for improvement but then needs to be utilised in a way that can positively impact the student’s learning. Technology can offer options to help bridge…
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Using Virtual and Augmented Reality to Enhance Primary Students’ Learning
Over the past two decades, research into the use of Virtual (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) in schools has demonstrated an increase in student engagement, motivation, learning and retention of knowledge (Azuma et al, 2001; Chen et al, 2018; Alenezi, 2023). VR and AR technology has become more accessible in recent years, leading to an interest in using this within education, however, very few studies have looked at the effectiveness of these with primary-aged children (Chua et al,…