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How to Seek Feedback Effectively

Unlock the power of feedback and gain strategies to achieve your personal and professional goals.

Co-workers having a conversation. Unlock the power of feedback and gain strategies to achieve your personal and professional goals.

How to Seek Feedback Effectively

  • 2 weeks

  • 3 hours per week

  • Digital certificate when eligible

  • Open level

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  • Duration

    2 weeks
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    3 hours
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Establish effective feedback channels to boost your professional development

Asking for feedback is an intimidating thing. But when given and received constructively, it can unblock barriers to your growth.

Discover how you can improve with feedback by joining Deakin University’s Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) as a participant in this two-week course and study.

By the course’s end, you’ll walk away with the confidence to seek feedback in a variety of settings, as well as the skills to make sense of and use it.

Learn to seek feedback with purpose

During this course, you’ll focus on how to seek the specific feedback you need effectively. You’ll gain strategies that help you confidently request feedback and establish reinforcing feedback loops.

You’ll also learn to identify the barriers that hinder seeking out feedback and acting on it. Knowing how to spot these barriers, you’ll be better positioned to utilise your feedback in a constructive and goal-reaching way.

Turn feedback into actionable growth

Whether you receive positive or negative feedback, you’ll understand how to regulate your emotions and approach feedback (both receiving and providing) with self-compassion.

You’ll then gain effective strategies to craft actionable plans after receiving feedback, ensuring your insights lead to meaningful improvements and long-term progress.

Support feedback literacy as an active research participant with Deakin

In completing this course, you’ll have the opportunity to join Deakin’s ongoing study to examine how learners can be equipped with the strategies and tools to make the most of feedback.

You’ll develop ‘feedback literacy’ that helps learners deal with diverse feedback encounters in their future study and work lives, regardless of whether these encounters are positive or negative.

Syllabus

  • Week 1

    Understanding feedback

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      Let’s get started

      Meet your teaching team and other learners, and find essential information about this course, including valuable tips and links to help you get the most out of your learning.

    • Decorative

      Why seek feedback?

      Feedback, feedback behaviours and active seeking.

    • Decorative

      How to seek feedback

      Goals, feedback requests and exemplars of questions.

    • Decorative

      Barriers to seeking feedback

      About barriers, turning intentions into actions, overcoming challenges and tracking progress.

    • Weekly wrap

      A short summary of the week with a task.

  • Week 2

    Taking action

    • Decorative

      Working with existing feedback

      What to do with feedback you receive and making sense of feedback.

    • Decorative

      Working with emotions

      Emotions and feedback, regulating emotions, self-compassion and your plan.

    • Decorative

      Closing the loop

      Acting on feedback, getting in touch with the feedback giver and long-term strategies.

    • Decorative

      Course wrap

      Reflect on the key ideas presented throughout this course.

When would you like to start?

Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Collect feedback about current work
  • Apply strategies to reduce negative emotions in the feedback seeking process
  • Produce feedback requests that will generate useful information

Who is the course for?

This course is perfect if you’re a student looking to elevate your work or a professional eager to boost your performance on a personal and professional level, or someone wanting to improve your work outputs in general.

In joining this course, you’ll become a participant in Deakin University’s research study, whose findings will contribute to the development of courses and resources aimed at improving the way people engage with feedback. This study has Deakin University Ethics Approval (HAE-24-006). Both the course and study are open to anyone 18 years or older and proficient in English.

Please review the Plain Language Statement and consent information in the first step, after enrolling, before you continue on the course. This step will also have information on how Deakin will treat your data, the potential risks and benefits of participation, and how you can withdraw from the study.

Who will you learn with?

Phillip Dawson

is a Professor and the Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning. He researches higher education, feedback, cheating, assessment and research methods.

Laura Hughes

Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning at Deakin University. My research areas include feedback literacy, higher education and behaviour change.

Tegan Miller

Is a PhD Candidate with the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE), Deakin University. You can contact me at tegan.miller@deakin.edu.au

Who developed the course?

Deakin University

Deakin University

Deakin University is one of Australia’s largest universities with more than 61,000 students and over 15,000 online.

  • Established

    1974
  • Location

    Melbourne, Australia
  • World ranking

    Top 280Source: QS World University Rankings 2021
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Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE)

The Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) researches assessment and digital learning practices aiming to establish Deakin University as a leader in higher education research connected to Deakin’s own teaching and learning agenda.

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