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Please review the tabs below to explore various feedback strategies.

Frequent Feedback
Text Expanders
Innovative Feedback
Regular and Substantive Interaction
Provide Effective Feedback

Offering Frequent Feedback to Improve Student Course Experience

In this interview, Dr. Firm Faith Watson will be conversing with Ms. Kerry Foley, Manager of Course Design, Division of Continuing Education, Harvard University. About Ms. Foley: Kerry Foley is the Manager of Online Course Development at Harvard Extension School. She and her team support faculty in designing innovative and useful learning experiences for their Extension School courses. Kerry earned an undergraduate degree in Television, Radio, and Film from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and spent many years working in the field of video production before completing a graduate degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her coursework focused on cognitive development, informal learning, and designing and producing media for learning.

Providing Better (and More Efficient) Feedback Using Text Expanders

In this interview, Dr. Firm Faith Watson will be conversing with Dr. Jean Mandernach, Executive Director, Center for Innovation in Research and Teaching at Grand Canyon University. Innovative instruction can revolutionize student learning. Embracing this philosophy, Mandernach blends her passion for teaching and research to explore the power of online education for transforming students one asynchronous interaction at a time. She applies her background in psychology to explore the dynamic influence that instruction has on student learning, engagement and satisfaction… and examines how institutions can effectively evaluate online teaching to ensure students receive a high-quality learning experience. Further, recognizing the clash between the ubiquity of the online classroom and the human need for sleep, Mandernach researches practical pedagogical approaches to help faculty be simultaneously effective and efficient.

Using an Innovative Feedback Strategy to Help Students Learn

In this interview, Dr. Firm Faith Watson will be conversing with Dr. Nicole Arrighi, Professor and Educational Technology Coordinator, Department of Teaching & Learning, Tennessee State University. About Dr. Arrighi: Dr. Nicole Arrighi is a Professor and Educational Technology Coordinator in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Tennessee State University. In addition, she serves as a senior member of the National Education Association’s Content Quality and Review Board, recommending online professional development courses to the NEA Academy. Dr. Arrighi also works as an online instructor for the Tennessee Board of Regents—TN eCampus (including eight years as a faculty member) and taught five years as an educator for Metro-Nashville Public Schools.

Regular and Substantive Interaction for Online Courses (Lightning Session)

How does the Department of Education’s new regulation on “regular and substantive interaction” affect how I teach?

The Department of Education has provided new guidance for a regulation on “regular and substantive interaction” in courses taught in our WEB, ZOOM, VIDCOM, or ITV formats. In this session, we will discuss Murray State’s affirmation of this regulation, and discuss ways in which instructors can employ effective means for “regular and substantive interaction.” The Online Champions will provide tips and tricks they have used to meet the student expectation that students will have predictable interaction with their instructors.

When completing this session, instructors will be able to:

describe the background and importance of the DOE’s regulation
articulate Murray State’s policy for Regular and Substantive Interaction
employ a number of strategies for interacting with students in WEB, ZOOM, VIDCOM, and ITV formats.

Presenters: Professor Ashley Ireland, Interim Assistant Provost and Director of Online Programs

Dr. Brian Bourke, Department of Educational Studies, Leadership and Counseling

Dr. Kristie Guffey, Department of Agricultural Science

Dr. Jennifer Morrison, Department of Political Science and Sociology

Dr. Melony Shemberger, Department of Journalism and Mass Communications

Providing Effective Student Feedback (Blitz week 2022)

Have you ever spent a lot of time and energy providing your students with feedback on their assignments, but you were disappointed when you didn’t see them using your feedback?

Join us to review relevant research about what students indicate are characteristics of high-quality feedback. You will also get an opportunity to identify quality feedback and construct your own high-quality feedback.

Presenter: Alicia Pennington, Faculty Developer and Instructional Designer, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, Western Kentucky University