Around the Web – Eli Review https://elireview.com Mon, 07 Aug 2017 18:23:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.9 Around the Web: “Feedback: You Need To Lead It” https://elireview.com/2017/08/29/atw-feedback-lead/ Tue, 29 Aug 2017 22:30:12 +0000 http://elireview.com/?p=6672 In “Feedback: You Need to Lead It,” Forbes contributor Rich Lyons offers advice to help supervisors build a culture of feedback in the office “where peers feel comfortable sharing, asking […]]]> In “ Feedback: You Need to Lead It,” Forbes contributor Rich Lyons offers advice to help supervisors build a culture of feedback in the office “where peers feel comfortable sharing, asking for and receiving analysis of their performance, even on a daily basis.” Though workplaces and classrooms differ greatly, several principles apply in both contexts: Negative feedback shuts down relationships.

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]]> Around the Web: The Last 5 Minutes of Class https://elireview.com/2016/06/15/last-5-minutes/ Wed, 15 Jun 2016 05:00:36 +0000 http://elireview.com/?p=5389 James M. Lang’s series for the Chronicle of Higher Education on Small Changes in Teaching and his new book Teaching Small offer practical, research-grounded strategies for improving learning. Lang asserts: […]]]> James M. Lang’s series for the Chronicle of Higher Education on Small Changes in Teaching and his new book Teaching Small offer practical, research-grounded strategies for improving learning. Lang asserts: When it comes to the deliberate construction of our course periods, we can do better. As I have been arguing in this series, small changes to our teaching — such as the way we approach the...

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]]> Around the Web: How to Ask for Feedback https://elireview.com/2016/06/09/how-to-ask/ Thu, 09 Jun 2016 05:00:13 +0000 http://elireview.com/?p=5296 Designing feedback exercises is an especially important challenge for instructors when they’re helping students learn how to give helpful feedback. We’ve outlined a number of those challenges in our professional […]]]> Designing feedback exercises is an especially important challenge for instructors when they’re helping students learn how to give helpful feedback. We’ve outlined a number of those challenges in our professional development module, Designing Effective Reviews. However, if we’re training students for professions where feedback is important and necessary, we need to pass some of those skills on to...

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]]> Around the web: triaging feedback https://elireview.com/2016/06/02/feedback-triage/ Thu, 02 Jun 2016 05:00:32 +0000 http://elireview.com/?p=5268 Getting helpful feedback on writing isn’t enough; as we argue in our student module Rethinking and Revising Using Feedback to Improve Our Writing, selecting from the feedback you receive is also important. Clark Wimberly, writing for The Next Web, describes a similar process when giving advice for how designers can handle feedback they receive during critiques. He describes a face-to-face feedback...

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]]> #4C16 – Panels on Feedback and Revision https://elireview.com/2016/03/02/4cs-sessions/ Wed, 02 Mar 2016 22:24:25 +0000 http://elireview.com/?p=4927 Many in our teaching community are no doubt aware that 2016’s College Conference on Composition and Communication is quickly approaching. We’re looking forward to the opportunity to meet with many of […]]]> Many in our teaching community are no doubt aware that 2016’s College Conference on Composition and Communication is quickly approaching. We’re looking forward to the opportunity to meet with many of you there. We’ve compiled here some of the sessions we’re most excited about. Some sessions relate to Eli Review directly, where presenters will share teaching or research stories, but we’ve also...

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]]> Eli Review’s Algorithms – Making the World More Human https://elireview.com/2015/11/20/algorthims-make-the-world-human/ Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:00:20 +0000 http://elireview.com/?p=4654 Daniel Hocutt of Old Dominion University is curating a conversation at Media Commons on algorithms, specifically what kind of influence educators can have over how they are designed and deployed.  The whole […]]]> Daniel Hocutt of Old Dominion University is curating a conversation at Media Commons on algorithms, specifically what kind of influence educators can have over how they are designed and deployed. The whole conversation is worth reading, but our own Bill Hart-Davidson has contributed a short essay in which he discusses the dangers of teaching students to write for algorithms and how algorithms...

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]]> Are Your Students Getting The Right Feedback at the Right Time? https://elireview.com/2015/09/03/feedback-timing/ Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:47:53 +0000 http://elireview.com/?p=4583 A 2015 study published in the Journal of the Internet and Higher Education reports that feedback that offers direct, task-oriented guidance produces the best results for learners who engage in […]]]> A 2015 study published in the Journal of the Internet and Higher Education reports that feedback that offers direct, task-oriented guidance produces the best results for learners who engage in multiple rounds of peer review activity. The researchers suggests that in the earlier stages, this type of “cognitive” feedback is more effective than “affective” (e.g. praise) comments.

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]]> Why care about Feedback-Rich Classrooms? https://elireview.com/2015/05/07/why-care-about-feedback/ Thu, 07 May 2015 15:28:41 +0000 http://elireview.com/?p=4044 Like a yoga instructor watching the class, Eli offers engagement analytics that help instructors coach individuals and the whole class toward better feedback and revision. (photo credit: Flickr user ftmeade)In part 1 and part 2 of our new Investigating Your Own Course series, we profiled Bill Hart-Davidson’s Spring 2015 Technical Writing course because it’s a success that grew out […]]]> In part 1 and part 2 of our new Investigating Your Own Course series, we profiled Bill Hart-Davidson’s Spring 2015 Technical Writing course because it’s a success that grew out of our limitations in 2008. Back then, we wanted to teach iterative writing assignments with lots of review, but that pedagogy became impossible due to coordination hassles. Bill’s Technical Writing Course has the same...

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]]> Around the Web: The Challenges of Feedback https://elireview.com/2015/03/26/feedback-challenges/ Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:30:34 +0000 http://elireview.com/?p=3964 Maryellen Weimer, professor emerita at Penn State and editor of The Teaching Professor blog, recently published a blog post tackling why feedback is such a challenge to provide and to act […]]]> Maryellen Weimer, professor emerita at Penn State and editor of The Teaching Professor blog, recently published a blog post tackling why feedback is such a challenge to provide and to act on. She begins this way: Sometimes feedback leads to better performance, but not all the time and not as often as teachers would like, given the time and effort they devote to providing students feedback.

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