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The rise of AI over the past years has completely transformed education, especially for online and hybrid programs. Technologies like adaptive learning and AI-powered assessment show great capacity for personalized learning experiences, reduced faculty workload, and enhanced institutional effectiveness. To fully harness AI's power, it's crucial to balance its strengths with preserving the human element central to authentic learning and assessment.

Join our webinar to discover best practices, case studies, and examples of leveraging AI to make online and hybrid education more efficient, enhance teaching and learning, and reliably support faculty and students.

As more and more students express dissatisfaction with “one-size-fits-all” learning, higher education is at a turning point to find more inclusive and authentic approaches. Competency-based education (CBE) has been identified as an effective model for establishing a personalized, skill-oriented curriculum that emphasizes lifelong learning and mastery of essential skills for the workplace.

However, implementing CBE can be a challenging process, both due to a lack of standards for defining competencies and to technical limitations on scaling the process to large student cohorts, such as difficulties with combining and accessing learner analytics, insufficient configurability of learning tracks and rubrics, and the prioritization of age-based, rather than mastery-based cohorts.

Join this webinar to explore the fundamentals and best practices of CBE and learn how Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University (RSM) and FeedbackFruits co-developed Competency-Based Assessment, a flexible pedagogical solution to empower a smooth implementation of CBE in higher education.

In the post-AI educational landscape, designing meaningful courses that engage students and prepare them for their future professions is no small feat. To engage all diverse learners and stimulate the transfer of lifelong competencies, learning design needs to deploy authentic, inclusive assessment while ensuring high quality across different learning modalities.

Are you seeking innovative strategies to drive active learning and foster collaboration in various educational settings? Join our webinar to explore the best practices and insights shared by instructors and learning designers at the Texas A&M University, who transformed their curriculum with FeedbackFruits' solutions for iterative team-based learning, peer feedback, and social annotation activities.

Student well-being and a sense of agency are crucial to maintaining motivation and retention. Despite that, students in the UK and Ireland make it clear that their voices are not being heard. With faculties struggling to address emerging student concerns in time on top of their already heavy workload, there is a clear need for more personalised, student-centred assessment and learning practices that can both free instructors’ time and boost student satisfaction.

Join this webinar to dive deeper into the FeedbackFruits solutions and learn how Imperial College London and the University of Bath used FeedbackFruits to drive an institutional assessment and feedback transformation that saved faculties’ time and enriched the student experience.

Student dissatisfaction with feedback and assessment is one of the leading concerns in ensuring high-quality learning and teaching in the UK and Ireland. Relying on passive modes of assessment causes a deep disconnect between skills needed for the future versus the skills being assessed. To bridge this gap, it is necessary that educators adopt diverse and authentic assessment methods, but how can institutions implement them effectively?

Jisc recently partnered with FeedbackFruits to better address educational challenges as such and continue supporting higher and further education institutions in the region. With a tool suite of 15 VLE-integrated solutions, FeedbackFruits helps educators streamline the (peer) feedback processes, facilitate authentic assessment, and encourage collaboration in any setting.

Join the webinar to learn how FeedbackFruits can help your institution efficiently scale feedback and assessment processes and enrich the student experience.

Team-based learning is one of the most effective pedagogical approaches to encourage collaboration and critical thinking, but it can be laborious to implement, deliver, and manage, especially for large cohorts. To help combat this challenge, FeedbackFruits developed the LMS-integrated Team Based Learning solution to digitize the TBL process and make it much more streamlined, seamless, and engaging for both online and in-person participants.

Join this webinar for a deep dive into the new and improved FeedbackFruits Team Based Learning tool, explore best practices from TBL experts at Texas Christian University School of Medicine, and learn how Boston College scaled TBL to foster collaboration and employability skills.

With the rapid advancement of AI solutions such as ChatGPT, higher education institutions are struggling to ensure academic integrity while maintaining quality, growth-oriented learning experiences. However, the rise of ChatGPT also presents a critical opportunity to transform the way we think about learning and assessment. Here is where pedagogical approaches such as authentic assessment prove essential, as they can help engage and evaluate students at every step of their learning journey.

Join this webinar to discover the best authentic assessment strategies from Boston College and Fort Hays State University to foster meaningful learning in the new era of AI.

With the California Community Colleges being the most diverse higher education system in the country, it is our responsibility to ensure that each student is given accessible and personalized learning opportunities. To achieve this, how can we foster a safe and inclusive learning environment without additional workload on faculty to increase the opportunities for higher education degree attainment in California?

In partnership with CollegeBuys, FeedbackFruits invites you to join us for a 1-hour webinar as guest speaker Craig Donahue (Instructional Support Specialist at College of the Desert) and Cole Groom (Account Executive at FeedbackFruits) will discuss how College of the Desert & other colleges in the area have innovated their learning design for social learning with the help of time-saving technologies.

Fostering student success is paramount to achieving learning outcomes and student progression. Establishing rapport with students, instilling them with knowledge and expertise while guiding them through the learning experience is what faculty do best. Beyond this, what are additional ways an instructor can ensure the academic success of their students? Whatever measures are taken, they have to be sustainable for the instructor and effective – time is in too short of supply.

In this webinar, Associate Director of Learning Systems Support at Central Michigan University Marnie Roestel will showcase practical ways to help ensure the success of your students and foster engagement – all through the lens of a learner-centric course.

FeedbackFruits co-hosted together with Deakin University and Griffith University its first Australian Inspiration Day to discuss Empowering Pedagogies with FeedbackFruits.

On behalf of Deakin, Griffith and FeedbackFruits; would like to thank our speakers and the 178 attendees for making this day special.

Below you can find videos of the sessions and presentations of the speakers. Enjoy!

In this webinar, Linda Lee, Director of Instructional Design and Dylan Fenton, Instructional Technology Project Leader at Wharton School of Business will share how they are using peer learning to drive student engagement and group work.

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Enriching Teams with FeedbackFruits active learning tools

Join us in this webinar where we will discuss how you can leverage FeedbackFruits tool suite to elevate your course design with Microsoft Teams.‍

Attendees will gain insights on:

• Pedagogical gain and new course design possibilities with FeedbackFruits in Teams
• How to integrate and start using FeedbackFruits tools in your Teams environment
• Success stories of incorporating FeedbackFruits in Teams from teachers and instructors

Preparing students to thrive in the business world by equipping them with cross-functional skills such as leadership, collaboration and communication lies at the heart of business education. Development of these skills relies heavily on maintaining an effective feedback loop among students, ensuring group accountability, and facilitating in-class discussions. However, this can be challenging as instructors often find themselves facing pedagogical problems such as free-riding in group work, low feedback quality, result-oriented assessment or learner disengagement.

This 45-min webinar aims to gather teachers and instructional designers from business schools in a panel discussion to share and exchange ideas on improving group dynamics and social loafing in team based education.

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How can educators meet the diverse needs of students to improve engagement and retention throughout their learning journeys?
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‍In this webinar, we will showcase the best pedagogical practices for creating meaningful engagement moments and feedback loops in any classroom size and modality together with Linda Lee, Director of Instructional Design at the Wharton School.

The pandemic-induced digital transformation caused a shift in students’ expectations regarding flexible pedagogies and classroom setups. It becomes increasingly apparent that higher education institutions need to be ready to upgrade their digital infrastructures to cultivate inclusive learning and meet the needs of their diverse students.

In this webinar, we will showcase how evidence-based pedagogical technology can help universities establish robust personalized online learning ecosystems and deepen their pedagogical offerings, together with Andrew Feldstein, Assistant Provost for Teaching Innovation and Learning Technologies at Fort Hays State University.

During this webinar, the way various institutions use AI support for teaching academic writing skills will be discussed. Jane Mahoney (University of Groningen) and Rosalind van Aalen (Avans Hogeschool) will present use cases regarding the use of FeedbackFruits' tool on the basis of AI, Automated Feedback, in supporting academic writing skills.

Questions such as: "how is the Automated Feedback tool used?", "how does Automated Feedback support the teacher?" and "how does Automated Feedback support students in learning academic writing skills?" will pass by. In the end a representative from FeedbackFruits will talk about FeedbackFruits' vision on the future of Artificial Intelligence in higher education.