Providing swift and useful feedback to students was a major challenge for academics long before Covid-19 upended higher education across the world. But the pivot to online teaching and assessment in recent months has underlined just how difficult this vital, but time-consuming, task has become. So is it time to reconsider the paradigm of teacher-student […] … learn more→

Educators and students often struggle to learn from each other through the use of feedback. Our research into feedback practices has found that students and staff find feedback practices largely unsustainable, de-motivating and without opportunity for improvement. Researchers generally describe current feedback practices as lacking in detail, difficult to understand, ambiguous or simply unusable. The 2015 Graduate […] … learn more→