student feedback and leadership - Office for Learning and Teaching
student feedback and leadership - Office for Learning and Teaching
student feedback and leadership - Office for Learning and Teaching
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Student Feedback & Leadership<br />
Issues related to service provision:<br />
––<br />
Lecturers can’t make improvements to <strong>feedback</strong> if the facilities <strong>and</strong><br />
technology are unreliable.<br />
––<br />
Importance of quick responses from service providers when problems<br />
arise – having this happening now is a significant help to lecturers.<br />
Issues related to transition<br />
––<br />
Encouraging <strong>student</strong>s to become adult learners – self actualised <strong>student</strong>s<br />
is essential. This is a particular problem <strong>for</strong> first year <strong>student</strong>s.<br />
4. How has your participation in this project increased your knowledge<br />
about how to enhance <strong>student</strong> learning <strong>and</strong> improve learning <strong>and</strong><br />
teaching practice?<br />
––<br />
The project <strong>and</strong> initiatives trialled have provided valuable insights.<br />
5. Do you see what you have done in this project as a <strong>for</strong>m of <strong>leadership</strong>?<br />
Please explain.<br />
––<br />
It has been recognised by the school that we are being proactive in this<br />
area <strong>and</strong> that improvements are being made.<br />
6. How will the knowledge <strong>and</strong> experience you gained affect your future<br />
practice in enhancing <strong>student</strong> learning <strong>and</strong> learning <strong>and</strong> teaching practice<br />
across the university?<br />
––<br />
Course developments will continue based on building on the experience<br />
from this project.<br />
7. What would you like to see happen across RMIT as a result of the<br />
knowledge <strong>and</strong> skills you have learnt <strong>and</strong> the improvements you have<br />
made to the <strong>student</strong> learning experience?<br />
––<br />
The project has identified the need to develop a program to assist<br />
<strong>student</strong>s in developing the skills to become independent adult learners<br />
as a part of a broader transition program <strong>for</strong> first year <strong>student</strong>s.<br />
––<br />
Workplans <strong>for</strong> staff should be designed to enable all staff members<br />
to gain experience with all levels of <strong>student</strong>s. This is particularly important<br />
as <strong>feedback</strong> is being seen as an important factor linked to promotion.<br />
8. What future contribution, role, would you like to have in the ongoing<br />
process of improving the <strong>student</strong> experience?<br />
– – Course development is an ongoing endeavour <strong>and</strong> critical<br />
as technologies, <strong>student</strong> expectation <strong>and</strong> discipline specific<br />
content evolves.<br />
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