a one day conference about the use of audio feedback in higher education
A Word in Your Ear 2009 - Audio Feedback
Case Studies in Audio Format
Audio feedback is about valuing our voices and A Word In Your Ear wants to ensure that, as an emerging audio learning community, we model how audio can be used. You are invited to submit an audio file in MP3 format, lasting in the region of 3 to 5 minutes on the development and use of audio feedback from your perspective, whether that is as an academic, student, learning technologist, educational developer, and so forth.
These will be made available here and also as a podcast feed for those that prefer to subscribe. The feed will be set up soon.
What does an audio case study sound like?
Well, that's up to you! But here are some things you might include:
- An introduction to yourself: your name(s), role(s), institution
- Description of your context: why have you used audio feedback? or, why are you thinking of using it?
- Your expectations: what did you expect (technically, pedagogically, culturally)? Or what are you expecting?
- The reealities: what happened? what reaction have you had?
- The benefits
- The challenges and how you intend to address these, or how you have addressed these?
- Who else was involved? - what voices were heard - academics, peers?
- Transformation - how has audio feedback changed your practice e.g. what have you stopped doing? What else have you started doing? Who with? What else might you do or change?
- Interest of your colleagues, or their resistence
- Timing - when was the feedback made available, and was this ideal?
- Meaningfulness - do you think the medium allowed you to engage the learner in the feedback more deeply to the extent that they are likely to act upon it? If so, how did audio help you do this?
- Research - have you undertaken any formal research around the use of audio feedback? What methodology have you used? How has it affected your thinking?
- Requirements of students to act upon the feedback and how this was mnanaged
- Logistics: How was the feedback distributed and stored?
You might find it easier, and possibly more engaging for the listener, to produce the case study as a structured conversation with a colleague or friend.
Provide a quick indication at the beginning of the recording of what you will cover.
If you are excited by what can be done with audio, please attempt to convey this!
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