RSM InnovatED 2022

Developing learning-focused feedback cultures 

Feedback can be framed as a one-way transmission of information driven by educators, or as a two-way process, in which students’ agentic participation is critical to its success. How can you collect and use feedback effectively to improve your teaching and boost your students’ performance? In this talk, Professor Naomi Winstone will outline learning-focused approaches to feedback, and discuss how approaches to feedback design, feedback practice and purpose, and the development and evaluation of feedback processes can shape the feedback culture in ways that position students as having agency in feedback processes. 

Join this panel discussion to learn about the innovation journey towards competency-based education and become inspired from the experiences of faculty, staff, students and learning designers. This session will be facilitated by Anna de Waard-Leung.

Discover how to best design and send the feedback message and how to influence the way students receive that message with the Developing Engagement with Feedback Toolkit (DEFT), developed by Prof. Naomi Winstone (University of Surrey) and Dr Robert Nash (Aston University). You will practise with effective workshop activities designed to develop students’ feedback literacy skills. This session is led by Prof. Naomi Winstone. 

You need assessment design decisions for an effective, coherent, and agreeable student journey. During this presentation, Dr Luuk Veelenturf and Dr. Dimitrios Vlachopoulos will focus on the role formative assessments play in boosting student engagement and performance. More specifically, they will talk about the different types of formative assessments one can implement in quantitative and qualitative courses and highlight the necessary elements to ensure a positive impact on students’ learning experiences. 

Engage with an audience by giving them a real-world experience in a playful – but serious – way. The 2030 SDG game shows how the SDGs can come to life, shown outside of the teaching environment. This session is designed specifically for professional services staff, as you can use gamification as an effective tool in lots of situations. Teaching staff can join too.

E-portfolios provide a rich resource of data for both students and faculty members to learn about achievement of important outcomes over time, make connections among disparate parts of a curriculum, gain insights leading to improvement, and develop identities as learners or as facilitators of learning. Join this session to learn from FeedbackFruits and Fiona Hendriks from RSM, experts in digital technology for higher education.

Instructor Dr Colin Lee developed a grading methodology called Harmonized Appraisal (HAPP). HAPP leverages rubric-deconstruction and comment banks to provide a semi-automated approach to feedback generation for unstructured assignments such as essays and presentations. Join this presentation to learn how you might be able to implement the HAPP tool in your course.

Feedback and mentoring are strongly connected. In this workshop you will learn how to guide students trough feedback and mentoring via effective questioning. This is relevant in your role as thesis supervisor, feedback provider, coach, tutor, or mentor. The session is led by Anke Swanenberg from research institute Risbo and Tessa Razafindrakoto from RSM’s Learning Innovation Team. 

Explore how to design effective real-life learning and reflection activities for students' skills development, placing their programme journey at the core. The session is led by the Transformative Learning Project team, a collaboration between RSM’s Learning Innovation Team and EUR’s Impact at the Core programme.