1. Download me Audio feedback with audacity
a staff development workshop with Chrissi Nerantzi, academic developer

2. Create a portrait … of your new partner. Paper?
pair participants up, use cards
pairing participants, piece of white card, crayons
task: draw your partner during the session until I say ‘stop’

3. Aim
Introduce audio feedback workshop offered by Academic Development at the University of Sunderland
Objective
Participants will be able to discuss its usefulness and compare to their feedback and/or staff development practice.

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Student experience
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Audio feedback workshop
What do our students say?
Findings from the FDTL5 project (Oxford Brookes): Engaging students with assessment feedback, what works?
cascade partner initiative: Dr. G. Sanders, University of Sunderland (2007)
Verbal feedback
Feedback within VLE (discussions)
Perceived unfairness
Lack of trust
Emotional responses
Meaningless
Inconsistencies
Difficult to understand
Lack of understanding of assessment criteria
FDTL5 project: ‘Engaging Students with Assessment Feedback: What works?’
This project, based at Oxford Brookes University, started in the academic year 05/06 with a group of lead institutions developing a set of tools designed to enhance student engagement with assessment feedback. The project is running in close collaboration with the ASKe CETL, (Assessment Standards Knowledge Exchange) also based at Oxford Brookes.
Feedback as Feedforward: Developing skills in reflection and action
Report on the Cascade Partner Initiative conducted in the Business School as part of the FDTL5 project: ‘Engaging Students with Assessment Feedback: What works?’
Dr Gail Sanders, Academic Development
recommendation (one of them) reduce emphasis on written feedback!!!

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“I don’t understand the written feedback, or even if I’m supposed to. In past years, I have been happy to accept this situation, but more recently I have learned to ask for verbal feedback to help improve my work. It would be better if the feedback was verbal or demonstrated, especially since we’re training to be teachers.”
Source: Gleaves A, Walker C & Grey J (2008) Using digital and paper diaries for assessment and learning purposes in higher education: a case of critical reflection or constrained compliance, in: Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Vol 33, No. 3, June 2008, Routledge,
from verbal to audio(visual)

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“Wow, this was cool to listen to, easy clear and straightforward, it’s the kind of feedback you can’t refuse to hear, once you press play you get the good points and the bad points, when I came on to listen to it, it was like, oh dear this could be sad news and was scared of listening to it but I like the completeness of the feedback, sure things that have been helpful and I think I will be better doing the same thing now even without seeing the returned work. Thanks, Anne and I think this was a great idea and surely audio feedback is a plus.”
Source from Anne Cunningham’s presentation ‘Experiences with audio feedback’, Learning Matters Lunch Dec 08

7. Audio feedback workshop
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Audio feedback workshop
listen to student voice
enhance student experience
provide meaningful and effective feedback
explore innovative feedback approaches

8. Created a portrait Creator: Please give the portrait to your partner.
Receiver: Please provide feedback
carry out task: 2min
What happens?

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on the menu…
emphasis on pedagogy
verbal feedback comes natural to us (really?)
from verbal to audio feedback (research and learning from others)
tools: Audacity (portable), DIY, experimenting
VLE and podcasting
action plan: application and next steps
support and community: audio feedback wiki

10. Audio feedback workshop
Student experience
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Audio feedback workshop
more workshops across university and partner colleges
colleagues participated in workshops cascading to others, share experiences
evaluate audio feedback approach (capture student voice)
collaboration with other institutions