student feedback and leadership - Office for Learning and Teaching

Student Feedback & Leadershipinitiative will be completed and will feed into the overall project evaluation.The project findings will be reported and lessons learnt and good practicesdisseminated to the School, RMIT, and HE sector nationally and internationally.The major benefit that would accrue from this initiative is:––Utilising the Weblearn system to facilitate speedy delivery and feedbackto students in large classes from a variety of disciplines.10.6 Critical Success FactorsWhat were the contributors to success?––The commitment from the teaching staff in the ART project.––The commitment of the ALTC Project Leaders in addressing the issueswhich were related to improving and supporting teaching at RMIT.What were the impediments to success?––We had to reorganise the group because of a school redundancy process(Two members in term I and the leader in term 2 left the University).––Our facilitator who was a great help and very knowledgeable with theteaching literature resigned in November 2007.––The change in the Learning Hub via Blackboard happened very closeto the start of Semester 1 2008, therefore we cannot be sure if thechanges ( good or bad) in the teaching score were due to IT problemsor other factors- we need to analyse the results further.List separately – strengths and weaknesses of the ProjectStrengths:––It brought the teaching staff together to share their 'success and failure'practices in teaching large classes.––It was extremely educational 'that some staff decided to adopt' successfactors in their own teaching practices.––It allowed staff to see that the same success / failure factor(s) lead to thesame results considering the fact that students have varying mathbackgrounds.– – It provided the opportunity for us to bring IT and Property Services withinRMIT to the table, tell them our concerns, and seek their help in fixingsome of these issues.Page 144