Improving Feedback and Reducing Workload

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Improving Feedback / Reducing Workload

According to the research, faculty feedback to students plays a significant role in student satisfaction and learning in distance education courses. However, timely and detailed feedback often requires a significant investment of time and resources. In this session, several time saving & cost saving audio and video feedback strategies will be addressed and demonstrated. By the end of the session, you will:

learn about several free (or nearly-free!) web 2.0 tools that can be used to provide audio/video feedback to students,
discuss strategies for implementing the demonstrated tools,
and take away tutorial and tip sheets for each of the tools demonstrated.

Improving Feedback / Reducing Workload
1. Workshop Agenda
2. Research & Resources

Workshop Agenda

No times are listed because we'll spend as much or as little time on each section as you need!

Setting the Stage

Participant Input - Contributions Page
Key idea 1: types of feedback
Key idea 2: Varying method, timing, and amount of feedback
Key idea 3: Differentiating between group and individual feedback

Audio Feedback Tools & Strategies

a word about non-Web 2.0 tools: Adobe Acrobat and MS Word Voice Commenting
Going for mobile feedback using AbbyMe
Individual and group feedback using Utterz

Group feedback using GCast
Individual or group office hours/feedback with YackPack (synchronous voice chat with photos of people talking)
Group feedback using TalkShoe
for other ideas, check out other asynchronous audio strategies to improve communications and decrease workload

Video Feedback Tools & Strategies

Things you can do with video that you can't do well with audio feedback
Individual video mail and group video messages with EyeJot
Marking up content in VoiceThread
Reviewing student work with Screencast-O-Matic
Hold individual and group office time with WizIQ

Wrap Up & Last Thoughts

Let the feedback go both ways. These tools can easily be used by students too!
Invitation to share you expertise with us on this wiki, the Distance Teaching wiki, and the Sloan-C wiki
Find new tools at Go2Web20.net and Jane Hart's C4LPT
Learn about new strategies at EDUCAUSE Connect and Sloan-C

Research & Resources

Using Asynchronous Audio Feedback to Enhance Teaching Presence and Students' Sense of Community. Brief Summary: Research findings of a case study that compares text-based and asynchronous audio feedback strategies.
Feedback Via MP3 Audio Files. Brief Summary: Case study findings on impact of audio comments on student satisfaction and on learning.
Implications of Using Asynchronous Video in Distance Education Courses. Brief Summary: Quantitative research findings on impact of asynchronous audio and video on student satisfaction and learning.