Meet the new FeedbackFruits partners | Summer 2023 Highlights

[Amsterdam, 13 September] — FeedbackFruits is thrilled to announce partnerships with 32 esteemed higher education institutions in the last four months. These collaborative ventures mark a momentous step towards the company’s mission to foster impactful teaching and learning experiences.

FeedbackFruits has been co-creating evidence-based pedagogical technology with thought-leading institutions since 2012. Ranked as the 42nd fastest-growing technology company in the Netherlands by Deloitte in November, FeedbackFruits is now partnered with over 200 higher education institutions around the world. We firmly believe that by joining forces with visionary institutions, we can make a significant, positive impact on higher education.

For Sara Hagen, Academic Planner and Data Analyst at College of Engineering, University Wisconsin Madison, the decision on long-term collaboration with FeedbackFruits stemmed from the smooth pilot adoption and sufficient support: 

“FeedbackFruits is easy to use and effective, and the partner support has been great! Students enjoy giving and receiving feedback and using the insights it provides to improve their future performance.”

Partner highlights

Below we will highlight some of our partnering institutions by regions along with their vision for using FeedbackFruits in the coming semesters.

North America

• University of Florida will use the Group Member Evaluation tool to foster an interactive learning environment that brings out the best in each individual.
• Parker University and Northern College have chosen the entire FeedbackFruits tool suite to support the faculties in creating meaningful learning experiences 
• The Engineering faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will adopt several FeedbackFruits solutions: Group Member Evaluation and Peer Review to enhance and scale assessment across every department.
• With a goal to foster an engaging, active learning environment, Rockingham Community College chose FeedbackFruits Interactive Video to create motivating, interactive activities.

Europe

• In May and June, the University of Bath and University of Leeds entered into partnership with FeedbackFruits, where both institutions would leverage the entire tool suite to help deliver world-class research and teaching and train students to become future leaders
• The Technical University of Denmark has chosen FeedbackFruits Group Member Evaluation and Peer Review to support its’ vision of creating sustainable, innovative, and research-base education. 

Asia-Pacific

• Lingnan University will adopt FeedbackFruits Group Member Evaluation, Peer Review, Interactive Video, and Interactive Document to prepare students to “think critically and creatively, judge independently, care genuinely, and act appropriately and responsibly, and pursue their goals in the future”.
• After a successful pilot, Auckland University of Technology decided to enter into partnership with FeedbackFruits. The institution will use all FeedbackFruits solutions to help students develop lifelong skills and become passionate, intelligent and resourceful leaders.

About the partnerships

This strategic alliance will allow institutions to leverage their expertise and FeedbackFruits solutions to achieve many goals, of which the most critical ones are:

1. Better learning experience: By promoting active and inclusive course design principles with FeedbackFruits, the institutions can realize higher levels of student engagement, skills development, and success.
2. Increased scalability: Institutions can implement diverse and scalable learning strategies in any course modality within their existing LMS, with the help of FeedbackFruits.
3. Enhanced learning management: The implementation of FeedbackFruits tools allow faculties to promote seamless collaboration, personalized feedback, and data-driven insights for continuous improvement.

Abby Osborne, Assessment and Feedback Development Lead at the University of Bath remarked on the great possibilities to scale up the learning experiences for students with support from FeedbackFruits: 

“The tools increase efficiency in a sense that they enable our academic colleagues to respond to the needs of increasingly large cohorts.”

The road ahead

Via these new partnerships, FeedbackFruits hope to support institutions leverage pedagogical technology to cultivate a generation of future leaders who are growth-oriented, inquisitive, and driven.