Cheryl and I travelled to Birmingham yesterday to attend the Assessment and Feedback Project meetings and I’ve stayed on today to share the work of the project with the Learning and Teaching Practice Experts Group Meeting.

On both days it was interesting and useful to find out about the transition that JISC has been moving through in the past year and it was also great to see all the new JISC publications which have just come out to augment the already very useful booklets.

The project meeting was enormously reassuring, reminding Cheryl and me just how much we have achieved and the value of the work that our project has done. It was great to once again connect with Glamorgan and the work they’ve been doing. Our projects are seeking to answer similar questions but our different approaches have produced quite complementary evidence. It was also great to be able to touch base with folks from Manchester Metropolitan U and the opportunity to join forces with the English Department there is really exciting indeed.

The Experts meeting the following day has given the project a fantastic opportunity to showcase our wares. As usual our lovely poster attracted a lot of attention, but beneath that the usual interest in sorting out administrative processes for supporting assessment management were of key interest to colleagues from other institutions. There was also interest in our learning and assessment analytics work. I can’t wait to have some proper graphs to showcase the evidence behind it. Statistics here I come!