Evaluation

Quality teaching practices includes continuous review of practices and exploring ongoing avenues for enhancement. Consider the following questions for the learning and teaching practices within your course:

Review through a self lens

• How do you self-reflect on your own learning and teaching practices?

Review through a peer lens

• How do you undertake peer support, feedback and review of your learning and teaching practices for enhancement?

Review through a student lens

• How do you gather feedback from your students on the learning journey you created and your teaching practices?

Review through a practice lens

• How do you connect with your discipline or industry peers for ongoing enhancement of your learning and teaching practices?

Quality evaluation practices

• How do you utilise the feedback you obtain?

Receiving and accepting feedback

• How well do take on the feedback you are given? Do you actively seek it, or avoid it? Why?

Enhancing through research

• Do you use current literature to support your learning and teaching practice decisions?
• Do you research your learning and teaching practices to help solve issues or address problems?

Enhancing through learning analytics

• Do you use the data on Moodle to assist in making decisions for ongoing enhancement of your course design and teaching practices?

Technologies to enhance evaluation

• Are you using the most effective technology tools to gain feedback?

The BOLD Learning and Teaching Practices provide clear guidelines to support teaching practices for different delivery/study modes, opportunities for self-assessment and reflection on current teaching practices, and opportunities for collaborative discussion with peers and learning designers to enhance online teaching practices. The process of ongoing evaluation and review is embedded throughout all five focus areas – noted by the ‘criteria met’ tick boxes and the comments sections to assist with self and peer review discussions.

View the BOLD Learning and Teaching Practices.

Federation University offers the following professional development opportunities to support teaching staff with reviewing and enhancing learning and teaching practices:

• L&T Webinars – Virtual | Quarterly. Check out the virtual webinars offered throughout the year to support the processes of evaluation, review and enhancing teaching practices
• L&T Workshops – Virtual or face-to-face | On request. Workshops can be organised for your School or Discipline to address your specific review and evaluation needs. Contact your Director, Learning and Teaching or Insitute Learning Designer to see what is, or can be, organised for delivery in your area.
• Learning Technology Hub - Online | Just-in-time. Information on how to use a range of functions within supported learning technologies to enhance your review and evaluation practices
• Professional Learning Modules – Online | self-paced | certificate issued on completion.
• Graduate Certificate in Education (Tertiary Education) – This postgraduate award course is designed to support tertiary teachers deliver quality, contemporary teaching practices in the higher education setting. Modules on evaluation include the likes of:  Enhancing practice through review, Co-teaching and peer review, Teaching with impact and Introduction to Scholarship of Learning and Teaching.