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Research and technology have played important strategic roles in driving the enhancement of teaching in higher education. Given their complementary nature, it is beneficial to identify and develop potential synergies between research-enhanced and technology-enhanced education. As a flexible and versatile opinion-gathering platform, electronic feedback may play a more central role in university teaching by building close links between lectures and assessments in a module. This chapter shows how electronic feedback can be used as an effective teaching tool in technology- and research-enhanced education (TREE), particularly in the context of university courses in geosciences. More specifically, this chapter will discuss how electronic feedback may be used beyond its conventional association with formative assessments and may act as a two-way link between students and their lecturers. The discussion will also show how electronic feedback may be applied to enhance teaching efficiency and achieve pedagogical objectives in research-enhanced teaching.
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Tong, V.C.H. (2014). Towards Technology- and Research-Enhanced Education (TREE): Electronic Feedback as a Teaching Tool in Geoscience. In: Tong, V. (eds) Geoscience Research and Education. Innovations in Science Education and Technology, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6946-5_15
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