Adobe First Mondays: Multiple Modalities for Providing Rich Feedback to Learners

Join Phil ice, Ed.D., for a preview of soon to be published paper that explores foundational work in the use of audio feedback in online courses that found the following benefits associated with use of the technique:

• Ability to understand nuance
• Increased involvement in the course,
• Improved content retention,
• Increased perceptions of instructor caring

Subsequent research across multiple institutions confirmed these findings and detected significant gains in various aspects of teaching, social and cognitive presence. Later work demonstrated a generalized preference on the part of students for feedback that included both audio and written components.

This paper used work from the writing assessment literature to develop a framework for assessing the impact and perceived value of written, audio and combined written/audio feedback strategies across four global and 22 discrete dimensions of feedback. The findings indicated that students prefer a combination of feedback modalities; however, selective delivery strategies may be preferable at various levels. This session will explore the use of several common software applications to facilitate the process.

Speaker: Phil Ice is Director of Course Design, Research & Development at American Public University System

The recording for this event is now available
http://se.adobe.acrobat.com/p39967131/