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Evaluating Higher Education Practices

This document reflects on evaluating teaching practices in higher education. It questions whether methods like MEQs truly provide accurate feedback and suggests more frequent check-ins would be better. While feedback can sometimes be negative, it is an opportunity for growth. The author has a collaborative relationship with learners and uses livestreaming, Zoom, Padlet, and Discord for teaching. Coaching and mentoring are integrated with formative and summative assessments to allow for real-time progression through feedback loops.

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Evaluating Higher Education Practices

This document reflects on evaluating teaching practices in higher education. It questions whether methods like MEQs truly provide accurate feedback and suggests more frequent check-ins would be better. While feedback can sometimes be negative, it is an opportunity for growth. The author has a collaborative relationship with learners and uses livestreaming, Zoom, Padlet, and Discord for teaching. Coaching and mentoring are integrated with formative and summative assessments to allow for real-time progression through feedback loops.

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JASON ETIENNE ~ REFLECTION

Evaluating Practice

This final part of the module did raise some interesting questions about the methodology that we
use in Higher Education and how effective those approaches are. For example MEQ's are useful
but I'm not entirely convinced that they are an accurate 'Bellwether' per se. Perhaps weekly or
fortnightly feedback about modules would be more appropriate? What’s needed is a more
nuanced approach perhaps that is an organic and bespoke process between the teacher and
learner. When it comes to networks with colleagues, there are only two of us who are running
Games Art, so we are both in constant communication and always helping each other’s
development and explore how we feedback which also goes both ways as we often ask for
feedback from the students too. Oh sure, it can sting from time to time when you get feedback
that is negative, but often, it's an opportunity for growth - as clichéd as that sounds. It can help
you to raise your game, so to speak.

We tend to have a collaborative relationship with our learners and they often dictate the topics
or techniques they want to learn. We do a lot of livestreaming with our students which, although
often planned, can be a spontaneous occasion too. We do use ZOOM on occasion, but have
difficulty getting learners to use Breakout rooms, but they do prefer Padlet and chats in Discord
as they can share imagery and their screens too. Coaching and mentoring are what we're all
doing alongside the teaching and it feeds into formative a summative assessment in the process.

Ultimately, Evaluation can form part of a positive feedback loop where learners can progress in
'real time through the use of formative and summative assessment through the use of one to
ones and presentations.

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