Synergy paper at European Distance and e-Learning Network (EDEN) conference, Budapest, 15th June, 2016

1. Y1 Feedback:
Enhancing Feedback in
First Year Using Digital Technologies
Lisa O’Regan, Morag Munro,
Mark Brown, Nuala Harding & Moira Maguire
14-17 June 2016, Budapest
@y1feedback

2. Background
• Feedback in First Year
• Features of Effective Feedback for First Year
• Technology-Enabled Feedback Approaches
National Picture
The Irish Survey of Student Engagement (ISSE) 2014, found
that nationally, 23.3% of first year undergraduate students
never, and 44.9% only sometimes, received timely written
or oral feedback from teachers on academic performance.
Y1Feedback (2016). Feedback in First Year: A Landscape Snapshot Across
Four Irish Higher Education Institutions. Available from http://y1feedback.ie/

3. Feedback should:
1. Take place in formal and informal learning
settings within and beyond assessment;
2. Feed forward to future work; and
3. Be a dialogic process that ultimately
supports learners to become self-
regulating.
Synthesis of Literature
Y1Feedback (2016). TechnologyEnabled Feedback in First Year: A Synthesis of the
Literature. Available from: http://y1feedback.ie/

4. Key Reflections So Far
• Truly dialogic feedback approaches can be
difficult to achieve in practice
• Potential of technology – can be difficult to
realise (case studies)
• Need to progress beyond innovation champions
towards programme team buy-in
Unresolved question…
How can we actualise/embed these features
in first year practice at programme team level?