Venecia: Welcome back UDL explorers.
Heidi: to our BCcampus UDL Challenge series.
Venecia: I’m Venecia
Heidi: and I’m Heidi.
Venecia: So our next challenge in this series is connected to the principle of engagement, specifically mastery-oriented feedback. Heidi, why is this important?
Heidi: Well, mastery-oriented feedback is based on providing feedback throughout the learning process. This is really important for students because they can improve their knowledge and skills as they go along.
Venecia: And we know that feedback that’s provided to help students improve their work must be timely. It must happen during the learning process and usually without a grade attached. This is really important because it gives students the opportunity to come back to us with additional questions and then take all that information from us and improve the final product.
Heidi: I really like this, the interaction with the instructor around this. So Venecia, what do you do for mastery-oriented feedback?
Venecia: Well, in my class where I teach students how to write business memos, I give them the opportunity to upload a first draft, and then I go through this first draft. I give them audio feedback and students take the information from the audio feedback and they use that to improve the final draft.
Heidi: I really like the audio feedback. I think that just provides a real personal feel to the feedback.
Venecia: Yeah, I like it too, and it’s easier than written feedback. How about you, Heidi? What do you do?
Heidi: Well, we do a big community presentation in one of our courses. And so what I ask the students to do is to prepare a lesson plan. Yes. Then we meet on Zoom to discuss their plan and then I can provide them with feedback on their work so far. And if they need to make changes, they can do that.
Venecia: I like that students get the opportunity to make changes and to learn. Here’s our challenge for you. Choose one assignment in your course and redesign it to include mastery-oriented feedback.
Heidi: As always, you’ll find instructions, helpful resources on how to submit below. We cannot wait to see what you come up with.
Venecia: Happy exploring.
Heidi: See you next time.