Learning & Teaching Conference 2022

Dr Edd Pitt
Senior Lecturer Higher Education & Academic Practice,  University of Kent

Keynote - Feedback: Creating Opportunities within the Curriculum

It’s long established that feedback can be extremely beneficial for students’ learning; however, barriers to its active use by students are consistently reported. Once approach to address this is for educators to design in opportunities for its uptake within their curricula. In this keynote I will specifically draw upon recent literature that demonstrates how this might be usefully achieved. Specifically, I will argue for a change in how feedback in higher education is conceived of, operationalised, and implemented by educators and students. Underpinning the keynote is a desire to operationalise learning focused feedback designs to improve student learning and satisfaction.

Profile:

Dr Edd Pitt is the Programme Director for the Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education and Senior Lecturer in Higher Education and Academic Practice in the centre for the study of higher education at the University of Kent, UK. Edd has recently been collaborating with Academics in the UK, Ireland and Australia. His principal research field is Assessment and Feedback with a particular focus upon student's use of feedback. His current research agenda explores signature feedback practices and the development of both teacher and student feedback literacy. His most recent publication was a systematic literature review of Assessment and Feedback articles between 2016 - 2021 commissioned by Advance HE.