Name: Feedback for Learning Melbourne Workshop
Start: 2017-10-03T09:30:00+11:00
End: 2017-10-03T13:30:00+11:00
Location: Deakin Downtown

Feedback for Learning Melbourne Workshop

The Feedback for Learning: Closing the Assessment Loop project is alarge-scale, OLT-funded multi-institutional study between Monash University, Deakin University and the University of Melbourne.

Feedback for Learning: Closing the Assessment Loop

Feedback is a challenging and contentious issue in universities throughout Australia. Despite a substantial body of literature exploring feedback as part of assessment, and countless models, principles and strategies aimed at improving practice, feedback remains a consistent source of dissatisfaction for both students and educators. Feedback regularly receives low course satisfaction ratings in student surveys, with students reporting that feedback is meaningless, confusing, and too late to be useful. However, data also suggest that there are pockets of excellence in feedback across Australian higher education. What are these teaching teams doing that is so good, and what is enabling their successes?
Join us for an interactive half-day workshop to explore current educator and student experiences of feedback and discuss strategies to develop and support effective feedback designs in your educational context. This workshop will discuss findings and practice implications arising from a large-scale, OLT-funded multi-institutional study between Deakin, Monash and Melbourne universities. If you are in charge of feedback design for a unit/subject/module, an educational developer or academic designer, a course/programme leader, or an Associate Dean or Associate Head of School (Teaching and Learning) – then this workshop is for you!
Experienced feedback researchers Prof. David Boud, Prof. Elizabeth Molloy, A/Prof. Michael Henderson, A/Prof. Phillip Dawson, and Dr Michael Phillips will share examples of effective feedback designs currently in use in Australian universities, and examine the conditions that can assist effective feedback practices to develop and flourish. The project team will also present the Feedback for Learning framework, which seeks to guide the development of sustainable and effective feedback practice. Participants will be invited to compare the framework with their own feedback practice, and to consider how effective feedback designs may be implemented across a broad range of contexts. After the workshop, please join us for lunch to continue the morning’s discussions.
Please note: morning tea and lunch will be provided.
To learn about the Feedback for Learning project, and preview some of our early findings, please visit our website at <A HREF="http://feedbackforlearning.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">feedbackforlearning.org</A>!
Support for this activity has been provided by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training. The views expressed in this activity do not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Government Department of Education and Training.
 
FAQs
 
What are my transport options for getting to and from the workshop?
Deakin Downtown is located in the heart of Melbourne's CBD, just five minutes from Southern Cross Station and right next to the D15 Batman's Hill/700 Collins St (Docklands) tram stop. 
What if I can no longer attend the workshop?
Places for the workshop are limited, so please contact us as soon as possible at <A HREF="mailto:feedbackforlearning@deakin.edu.au?subject=Query:%20OLT%20Feedback%20for%20Learning%20Melbourne%20Workshop" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">feedbackforlearning@deakin.edu.au</A> if you can no longer make the workshop. 
How can I contact the organiser with any questions?
To get in touch with any queries, please contact us at <A HREF="mailto:feedbackforlearning@deakin.edu.au?subject=Query:%20OLT%20Feedback%20for%20Learning%20Melbourne%20Workshop" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">feedbackforlearning@deakin.edu.au</A>.
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