What the project is?
The University of Essex has been actively engaged with the Changing Learning Landscape initiative for several years and has taken a role in each of the programme’s strands: consultancy team coaching strategic leadership and project implementation.
Led by the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education our CLL teams have brought together expertise and insight from across our community with representation from our Students’ Union colleagues in academic departments and Professional Services as well as our network of recognised HEA Fellows.
The Strategic Excellence Initiative will continue to build on their success of FASER (coursework submission service to provide an integrated submission assessment and feedback service) and seek to further enhance interaction between students and staff through the system and improve the usefulness of the feedback given.
The intention of this is to make feedback more tailored to each individual student and to enable them to clarify points they do not understand an issue that has been raised previously in the National Student Survey.
What the project hopes to achieve?
Specifically the University of Essex plans to:
- Design and establish an action-based feedback facility linked where possible to our other e-learning systems and student skills development opportunities. For example action-based feedback could link to an activity or resource in our VLE a recording in our lecture capture system a recommended academic skills class or a bank of advice from staff and students on how to overcome a particular problem.
- Design and establish a feedback history for academic staff where they can see other grades and feedback a student has received.
- Design and establish more effective communication between staff and student through the FASER system. For example an opportunity to clarify feedback that complements face-to-face feedback and has the potential to be included in any Feedback History.
- Provide a tailored training and communication programme to develop feedback approaches.
