Build and Deploy Microservices for Automated Feedback

E-learning platforms are growing increasingly complex, embedding automated assessment and feedback tools to support learning at scale. One approach to addressing the ‘platform lock-in’ challenge of such tools is to source discipline-specific education microservices – modular, independent software that can be developed by domain experts and be reused across the entire sector, regardless of the platform employed. This half-day tutorial will introduce participants to education microservices for automated feedback using an active e-learning platform. Working in mixed-ability groups, participants will design, implement, and deploy a live microservice to evaluate student submissions on a specific learning task. By the end of the tutorial, participants will have contributed a working, publicly accessible automated feedback tool to an open-source education microservice ecosystem and engaged in community discussion on shared education microservice architecture and infrastructure.