This is an app idea I came up with to improve student learning. What is the motivation for this app? Students, who are the customers of education, have little input. Teachers, who heavily influence student learning, lack the data to improve teaching. Administrators, who can promote change, have little information. The auris app is designed to facilitate feedback and serve as a powerful tool to empower students, enable teachers, and inform administrators. What do you think?

1. An app idea to facilitate feedback and
improve student learning
Eldon Prince
eldonprince.com

2. If you want to improve student outcomes,
improve the learning experience

3. …learning outcomes are influenced by a complex interplay of
factors particular to an institution, teaching context, and
student disposition. - T. Fenwick (Fresh Approaches to the Evaluation of Teaching)
How can you improve the learning experience for all types of
higher education institutions and courses?

4. We all love technology
How can technology improve the student learning experience?
It can facilitate feedback

5. The problem:
Students, who are the customers of education, have little input
Teachers, who heavily influence student learning, lack the data to
improve teaching
Administrators, who can promote change, have little information
The solution:
Empower students
Enable teachers
Inform administrators
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6. Teachers themselves are best positioned to interpret student
outcomes according to course particularities and apply the results
immediately to improve their teaching.
This is why micro-level, teacher-directed evaluation is crucial
wherever measures of student outcomes are considered.
- T. Fenwick (Fresh Approaches to the Evaluation of Teaching)
Where are the data?
Create software that facilitates student feedback and promotes
improved teaching.
This leads to an improved learning experience and student
outcomes. Integrating feedback data with existing university
databases could yield powerful insights.

7. Student can see how his
understanding compares to
the class.
Student can choose to allow
the teacher to know his
identity.
Student interface
Student can ask a question,
answer a question, or make
other types of responses.

8. Teacher interface
Overview provides instant
feedback on instruction and
understanding.
Word cloud can be useful,
particularly if teachers provide
students with a prompt.

9. Teacher interface
Interactive instruction rating
allows teacher to read and
respond to comments by
category.
Written responses could also
be analyzed according to
instruction rating and
visualized with bar charts or
word clouds.
Teachers could track ratings
throughout the semester and
compare it to previous
semesters as well.

10. Teacher interface
Responses can be analyzed
according to students’
perceived understanding.
Additional features could
include segmenting students’
written responses according
to instruction and
understanding ratings.
Integrating real-time data with
university data would create a
powerful data set to help
improve student outcomes.

11. What are the consequences?
Better insight into classroom interactions than end of semester evaluations
Inform administrators
Identify students that need help before it’s too late
Identify teachers that need help
Empower students
Voice can be heard (can be anonymous)
Increase awareness of learning status
Promote dialog with teachers
Enable teachers
Data is too valuable and tempting to ignore
Data can allow for mid-semester corrections
Data can promote dialog with struggling students