Jisc Change Agents' Network Conference 2024

At Leeds University Business School, we have successfully used the app 'flip' in our postgraduate programmes to develop students' professional skills and provide formative feedback as part of assessment activities.  In this workshop you will learn more about how you might use ‘flip’ (or similar) to create practise opportunities for students to gain formative feedback.  

On a predominantly international and large cohort, student teams work together to prepare an assessed team presentation as part of the HRM Masters programme.  They are then further assessed on this experience through an individual reflective video. Thinking reflectively is a skill that has not always been acquired by the students before this point, and the use of ‘Flip’ was piloted as an experiential learning tool in weeks 1-5 of the module, encouraging students to practice reflection and gain formative feedback prior to the submission of their summative assessments.  Additionally, students were exposed and narrated through the wider ‘surfacing skills’ agenda so they could better recognise and articulate the skills they were practicing and understand why they had been embedded into their curriculum. 

‘Flip’ was chosen as it supports creative student engagement and peer-to-peer learning with promise of engagement, active learning and an increased sense of programme belonging in a digital environment.  

Following the pilot's success, the app has been used again this year in a similar way and engagement figures are even higher than the previous year.  We have also encouraged and supported colleagues to adopt the app in other post graduate programmes, suggesting this work may have wider impact and relevance.  

In this active workshop, Marianne, Sam and Student will cover: 

• The importance of practise opportunities to develop skills/knowledge for summative assessment  

• How to best engage students in meaningful formative feedback   

• How the flip app allowed students to be part of this co-creation