Patterns for Handling Students' Feedback

Feedback is an important value in agile methodologies. It is also essential for any context where people are learning. Typically the focus is on giving learners feedback on their learning progress, either from an educator’s point of view or between the learners via peer feedback. This paper focuses on gaining feedback from learners. We discuss methods and good practices for encouraging learners to switch their perspective from a recipient of facts to a critical observer of material produced by peer students and educators. This is essential both for educators (as a way to learn more about their own teaching) and for students (to be able to express opinions and give constructive feedback).