DISCOVER OUR AWARD-WINNING LEARNING

We believe that students who are encouraged to extract all they can from each and every step of their learning journey are the ones most likely to succeed. The PebblePad Learning Journey Platform offers universities award-winning technology to help educators support, guide and develop students – from induction to graduation, and beyond.

LEARNING JOURNEY PLATFORM

DISCOVER OUR AWARD-WINNING

McMaster University

“The PebblePad Learning Journey Platform helps our students reflect on what they are learning by documenting curricular, co-curricular and community learning and the relationship between.

McMaster University

PebblePad enables our students to connect their learning experiences across their entire degree from day one through to graduation.

Griffith University

THE PEBBLEPAD HERITAGE, PHILOSOPHY AND VALUES

HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE VALUE OF THE LEARNING JOURNEY PLATFORM

THE EVOLUTION OF PEBBLEPAD AND EPORTFOLIO

PEBBLEPAD - A CORE TECHNOLOGY

THE ANATOMY OF THE PEBBLEPAD LEARNING JOURNEY PLATFORM

PLANNING AND PREPARING FOR LEARNING

RECORDING AND REFLECTING ON LEARNING

COLLECTING AND CURATING

SHARING AND SHOWCASING

ASSESSMENT, REPORTING, INTEGRATION AND LEARNING DESIGN

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OUR We believe that students who are encouraged to extract all they can from each and every step of their learning journey are the ones most likely to achieve success. It’s why we spend our days crafting purposeful technology to help educators support, guide and develop students – from induction to graduation, and beyond.

PHILOSOPHY

OUR We deliver excellence in the big stuff and in the little detail. The PebblePad ambition is to delight and amaze. We do this through product innovation and building trust in our customer relationships. We don’t put off doing something for the sake of an easier path. If we can push the boundaries, we push them. Customers trust us because they know we have their best interests at heart and we understand their world.

VALUES

OUR For the past 15 years we have shared our unique blend of technology and educational expertise to help universities across the globe guide and develop future-ready graduates. Indeed, every day, thousands of students access our award-winning Learning Journey Platform to plan for their learning, record and reflect on their experiences, and collect, curate, share and showcase evidence of their evolving capabilities.

HERITAGE ABOUT US

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THE WHY

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Knowledge alone is no longer enough. Successful graduates need to display a wide range of aptitudes, attitudes and abilities which demonstrate their capacity to make use of what they know in a wide range of contexts. It’s a big part of why universities across the globe are looking to bolster their learning ecology with tools to support and guide learning from experience, and bridge the theory - practice gap.

THE WHATIf we understand why we’re seeing a shift in Higher Education, the next logical question to ask is what universities are doing to address it. Increasingly, universities are promoting active, authentic learning – within and beyond the classroom, with activities such as work placements, study abroad, research and collaborative projects and volunteering/community engagement.

An awareness of what needs to change is one thing. Understanding how to implement that change is a whole different ball game. Many universities are grappling with the challenge of how to roll out and support organisation-wide initiatives which don’t constrain individual creativity or limit learner-directed activity. However, all too often the LMS or VLE is too course and content centric to support personalised lifelong and lifewide learning journeys. That’s why we believe the solution to learner-centred development lies in our award-winning * Learning Journey Platform.

THE HOW

HIGHER EDUCATION & THE VALUE OFTHE LEARNING JOURNEY PLATFORM

12 Awards, and counting*

“Our wonderful portfolio tools form just one component of the fabulous overall package that is PebblePad.

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Ask around and most people will tell you that PebblePad is an eportfolio platform. It’s true that allowing users to tell their personal stories of learning and achievement through powerful and beautifully designed portfolios has always been at the heart of what we do. And, yet, whilst millions of portfolios have been created in PebblePad, they form only part of a rich tapestry of reflections, plans, experiences, blogs and activity records that users create to chart the steps along their learning journeys.

EPORTFOLIOTHE EVOLUTION OF

& PEBBLEPAD

What do we mean by (e)portfolio? From defining the fundamental purpose of ‘eportfolio’ through to deliberating whether the ‘e’ is even still required in today’s digital world, it is still a bit of a quandary when it comes to understanding just what this thing is. And given the term ‘eportfolio’ is often used to refer to systems, practices, processes and outputs – it’s clear that portfolio is a slippery concept to get a handle on. We like to keep things simple here at PebblePad and so for us a portfolio is simply a digital presentation intended to convey a story of learning, experience or achievement to a chosen audience.

WHAT IS PORTFOLIO?

SHANE SUTHERLAND, CHIEF MISCHIEF MAKER AT PEBBLEPAD

Superficially, the PebblePad of today is very different to the platform that first emerged 15 years ago, having been inevitably shaped by what we have learned from our terrific community of practitioners. However, the values and philosophy articulated on page 2 of this guide remain as true today as they have since the company’s inception – especially our use of prompts and scaffolds to help users plan for, make sense of, and articulate their learning and experience. Our experience is that more and more universities across the globe are finding more and more reasons to value our approach and embrace our philosophy.

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THE PURPOSE OF PORTFOLIO

We’re big on purposefulness here at PebblePad, and our view is that the primary intention of a portfolio is to create a presentation that allows the reader to gain insight into the author and their ideas, beliefs, skills, knowledge and/or experience. This remains true whether the portfolio is constructed to help the author gain employment and/or gain accreditation in a chosen field, demonstrate competence, or to show the extent of their learning.

THE ‘ABOUT ME’ VERSUS THE ‘TASK-PORTFOLIO’

Historically portfolios were 'about me'; that is, they told a story specifically about the author. As portfolios have been successfully adopted into myriad curricula, many portfolios have evolved into stories about activities, projects and events. These 'task-portfolios' typically demonstrate what has been learned by the author (or authors, where they are collaborative) but it is the task and not the author at the heart of the story. The value of task-portfolios, above and beyond their direct usefulness in structuring curricular, extra- and co-curricular activity, is that they provide valuable rehearsal opportunities for ‘about me’ portfolios, and rich evidence of learning that might directly contribute to a future me-portfolio.

“While showcase or ‘me-portfolios’ form a big chunk of PebblePad output across the globe, it is task-portfolios which dominate the statistics.

SHANE SUTHERLAND, CHIEF MISCHIEF MAKER AT PEBBLEPAD

While me-portfolios are typically instigated by the author, task-portfolios are more likely to be initiated by the educator, and often, but not always, as part of an assessed activity. This shift towards task-based, experiential learning, coupled with demand from our community to help them find better ways to structure and guide learning, goes a long way to explaining why the PebblePad of today not only offers unrivalled portfolio-building capability, but also design tools to help educators create scaffolded frameworks to support learning activities in any context, alongside a suite of tools to formatively assess and guide development.

PEBBLEPADOver recent years the perception of PebblePad has changed – indeed, in universities where it was once viewed as a peripheral platform, we are now seeing it form an essential and core component of our customers’ learning ecologies. And this isn’t all that surprising when you consider it can be used as a learner-centred end-to-end solution, from application to graduation and beyond, in any learning context, across both staff and student initiatives.

A CORE TECHNOLOGY

ONE THIRD

= 33 MILLION

OF LEARNING ASSETS ARE PORTFOLIO-BASED

FEEDBACK INCLUDES ASSESSOR FIELDS, COMMENTS, RUBRICS, GRADES, CAPABILITY APPROVALS, PAGE VERIFICATIONS & SCORECARDS.

THE NUMBER OFFEEDBACK RESPONSES ON LEARNING ASSETS

7.25 MILLION

80,000EXTERNALASSESSORS

MORE THAN ONE MILLION MEDIA UPLOADS

OF ASSETS ARE RESPONSES TO LEARNING DESIGNS *

10%

THE NUMBER OF USER-CREATEDASSETS WE HOST

500,000ACTIVE USERSEACH DAY

MORE THAN 100,000 COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ASSETS

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* While freeform portfolios make up a significant number of users’ learning assets, a significantly greater number of assets are created in response to inbuilt and purpose-built templates and workbooks made available to students.

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RECORDING & REFLECTING

PLANNING & PREPARING

SHARING &SHOWCASING

Allows students to make use of inbuilt tools or resources built and customised by their university to capitalise on each and every step of their learning journey, both inside and outside of the classroom.

THE ANATOMY OF THE PEBBLEPAD

LEARNING JOURNEY PLATFORM

Activity tends toward

PRODUCT

PROCESS

EPICS

EVENTS

THE PERSONAL(STUDENT) SPACE

THE INSTITUTIONAL(EDUCATOR) SPACE

CREATE & DISTRIBUTELEARNING DESIGNS

ASSESS & FEEDBACK

PROMOTES LEARNINGTHAT IS ...

PROMOTES LEARNING DESIGN THAT IS ...

ScaffoldedIncrementalIterativeDialogicCollaborativeVisible

DevelopmentalAuthenticPurposefulPersonalEvidencedReflective

Typical portfolio activities

Core PebblePad Activities

Project - Reflect - Connect - Select

COLLECTING &CURATING

ONE THIRD


OF ASSETS ARE RESPONSES TO LEARNING DESIGNS *

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Allows educators to make use of intuitive design tools for creating, sharing and distributing learning designs, along with a seamlessly integratedassessment engine.

PLANNING &

Most journeys in life begin with a little bit of planning and preparation. We believe it should be no different when it comes to a student’s lifelong and lifewide learning journey. That’s why the use of PebblePad’s default action plans, or customised skills audits and employability workbooks, all support the most fundamental aspects of the Learning Journey Platform - namely, prompting the student to ask ... Where am I today? Where do I want to get to? And what are the steps (and the support needed) to get there?

PREPARING

“PebblePad is a fabulous tool for students to start thinking about professional self – it helps them to build a professional identity because it’s purposeful.

UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

Activity tends toward

PRODUCT

PROCESS

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Our Learning Journey Platform is, and always has been, reflective by default. And while PebblePad offers students an assortment of useful tools to help them record any and every curricular, extra- and co-curricular learning activity, it goes beyond simply recording disparate activities. In PebblePad, students are prompted to reflect on the impact of an activity, how it connects to other experiences, and how it may inform the journey ahead. This approach ensures students never miss the “ah-ha” lightbulb moments, and become increasingly capable of articulating their abilities.

REFLECTINGRECORDING &

PebblePad helps our students reflect on what they are learning by documenting curricular, co-curricular and community learning and the relationship between.

M MASTER UNIVERSITY“

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CURATINGCOLLECTING &

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Without the structure and guidance of a platform like PebblePad it can be all too easy for students to either miss opportunities to collect and curate evidence of their learning and experiences entirely, or to accumulate evidence in a disconnected and transitory manner. While PebblePad is typically a university-led initiative, students benefit from their own personal ‘Asset Store’, which acts as a purposeful digital repository of learning experiences, projects and activities.

So far we’ve talked about the value of planning and preparing for learning, recording and reflecting on that learning, and collecting and curating a rich repository of connected evidence. Now, for the student, comes the culmination of all that effort – sharing and showcasing. Whether for formal assessment, peer review, career application, accreditation, or competency assessment, PebblePad offers unrivalled capability when it comes to helping students share and showcase their talents and experience.

SHOWCASINGSHARING &

“PebblePad portfolios stand out as little jewels of creativity and, most importantly, they can be designed by any user, without the need for specialised skills.

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH


MORE THAN 100,000 COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ASSETS

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REPORTING & INTEGRATIONASSESSMENTLEARNING DESIGN

LEARNING DESIGN

PebblePad's intuitive Template and Workbook Builders let users design and share frameworks for learning. From a single, reusable lesson plan template to a comprehensive professional development workbook, the possibilities are endless.

ASSESSMENT, REPORTING & ANALYTICS

PebblePad’s assessment platform offers grading, scorecards, rubrics, standardised feedback, peer review, conversation spaces, archiving capability and LTI 2.0 compatibility, plus the ability to report and analyse data on engagement, assessment and student progress.

INTEGRATION

Out-of-the-box integration with popular file stores, as well as badging and learning platforms, makes it easy for organisations to put PebblePad at the heart of a learning culture and offers individual users greater flexibility.

We believe that supporting students on their personal learning journeys should be the ambition of every university. But we understand that for those involved in managing and supporting student development it can present challenges - especially for large cohorts. That’s why PebblePad delivers tools for educators to easily build frameworks and resources for learning, monitor engagement, and provide formative and summative feedback and assessment to help students shape their journey. Couple this capability with out-of-the-box integration and robust reporting and analytics tools, and the ability to support the end-to-end learning journeys of students is beginning to look like a walk in the park (or a jog at most).

On the following pages you’ll find examples of just some

of the ways PebblePad is used by our customers. While

many of the stories touch upon all aspects of our Learning

Journey Platform, we’ve provided ‘focus areas’ for each of

the examples to help you quickly scan the content.

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Planning & Preparing for learning

Recording of (and Reflecting on) learning

Collecting & Curating evidence of learning

Sharing & Showcasing learning and development

Assessment & Feedback

Learning Design (specifically designs created in PebblePad)

‘FOCUS AREA’ KEY:

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SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY (SHU)

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UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGHLARGE-SCALE PEER ASSESSMENT

VIDEO ASSESSMENT OF CLINICAL SKILLS [AWARD-WINNING]

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The department, Edinburgh Global, offers a ‘Go Abroad Fund’ to provide financial support for students to

undertake international experience in line with the University of Edinburgh’s ambition to develop global

awareness in its students. With the fund open to all students from all colleges, Robert Chmielewski was tasked

with providing a technical solution to the challenge of selecting 200 successful applicants from around 1,100

entrants. PebblePad was the only platform which could meet the project’s requirements, offering an intuitive

interface capable of supporting anonymous peer assessment at scale. The project saw students submit their

applications into a secure, online PebblePad workspace and then, as peer reviewers, make use of a standardised

feedback form to anonymously assess five randomly-generated application submissions. With almost 1,100

applications, generating over 5,000 completed assessment templates, the reporting capability of PebblePad was

vital in automating much of the work – allowing the entire process to be completed in just one week.

PebblePad was the only technical solution that met the fundamentalrequirements of the project.“

Trainee paramedics undertake simulations of medical procedures in Objective Structured Clinical Examinations

(OSCEs). However, with SHU having 70 trainees undertaking multiple OSCEs, and only five staff to manage the

assessments, course leaders were faced with the challenge of locating enough examiners to observe the live

simulations. In an attempt to find a solution, the course leaders of the BSc Paramedic Science course concluded

that the simulations of the initial Year 1 and 2 OSCEs did not need to be observed live in person and video

evidence could be used. To manage the video submissions effectively the course team created a structured,

digital PebblePad workbook for students to complete. The workbook included placeholders for students to add

videos of each of their OSCEs, which they record via the PebblePad App, along with an area for them to reflect

upon their own performance. The videos can also be peer reviewed within PebblePad, providing an opportunity

for formative feedback before formal assessment. The new approach has resulted in significant benefits for

staff both in terms of efficiency and the robustness of the assessment process. Students, too, are reaping the

rewards of this innovative implementation, with over 90% of students preferring the new approach.

The project has allowed a transformative approach to assessment at scale while also increasing the quality of student skills.“JUDGING PANEL FEEDBACK. BEST LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES PROJECT - UK PUBLIC AND NON-PROFIT SECTOR. LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES AWARDS 2017

Summative and formative feedback are essential elements of practice placement education in Diagnostic

Radiography programmes. With placement students spread across 14 different hospitals and requiring daily

formative feedback and weekly summative assessment, the paper-based methods in place at QMU were not

only labour intensive but were also impacting negatively on engagement and doing little to mitigate the risk of

lost paperwork. The existing paper placement assessment forms were therefore replaced with electronic

forms developed in PebblePad and the PebblePocket App. The shift from paper to a digital world offers

additional security and compliance with data protection regulation, whilst providing students with access to

assessment forms from mobile and tablet devices, even when they are offline. QMU Academics have

commented that having student work readily accessible in a single, digital PebblePad workbook has

significantly reduced the overhead of previous paper-based approaches.

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QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY (QMU)MANAGING PLACEMENT

Existing paper assessment forms were replaced with digital PebblePad templates accessed through the PebblePocket App by students on placement.

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GRIFFITH UNIVERSITYINSTITUTION-WIDE EMPLOYABILITY PORTFOLIO


In 2016, PebblePad was selected as the Platform to support the Griffith Employability Initiative, and in late 2017 the

DVC-A supported a proposal to develop a university-wide employability achievement record called the Griffith

Graduate of Influence (GGoI). The University wanted students to be able to record personal achievements in a

variety of ways and for the records to be evaluated at a discipline or school-level. Usage data was also to be made

available to the university executive. The program itself is structured into three levels: Silver, Gold, and Platinum,

with each level recognising the students’ active development of their professional identity throughout their studies.

By working through the levels, students are encouraged to connect with industry, undertake professional

development, and make explicit the connections between studies, professional aspirations and life outside of

university. The initiative makes use of a range of PebblePad tools including an Activity Log to continuously track the

accumulation of activity points across each level, a Career Portfolio template, a set of seven reflective templates to

document co-curricular and extra-curricular activities, inbuilt options to upload supporting evidence, and the

submission and reporting capability of PebblePad’s assessment space, ATLAS. A digital PebblePad workbook was

specifically designed to provide the scaffolding for the GGol Portfolio.

The initiative made use of a PebblePad Activity Log to continuously track the accumulation of points across each level of the program.“

UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF STAFF (CPD)

All academic staff at the University of Cumbria keep a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portfolio

created in PebblePad and use this for a variety of compulsory and non-compulsory CPD activities. Newly

appointed staff use the portfolio to apply for Higher Education Academy (HEA) recognition either through a

taught programme or through a more flexible CPD route. Both routes to recognition are accredited by the HEA

and both require a portfolio of evidence mapped to the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF). Staff

on the CPD route to recognition not only make use of a digital workbook to scaffold their application portfolio

but also a PebblePad workspace containing resources, guidance, and exemplars. The portfolios are submitted

to a PebblePad workspace for assessors to mark and provide feedback using a standardised PebblePad

feedback template. As of December 2018, approximately 70% of staff hold Fellowship, Senior Fellowship, or

Principal Fellowship – well above the sector average.

As of December 2018, approximately 70% of staff hold Fellowship, Senior Fellowship, or Principal Fellowship - well above the sector average.“

CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITYREFLECTION ON INDIVIDUAL LEARNING JOURNEYS


Canterbury Christ Church University’s PGCE Programme makes use of PebblePad’s Learning Journey Platform to

significantly reduce the need for paper-based processes in an implementation which enables students to

collaborate with peers, reflect meaningfully on their learning, plan for their next stage of learning, capture

‘accidental learning’, record evidence of authentic learning and present accomplishments. The innovative

implementation promotes lifewide learning as a habit and addresses what the students who use PebblePad see

as the 6 frontiers of learning:

The innovative implementation promotes life-wide learning as a habit and helps students collaborate with peers and reflect deeply on their learning.“

1. Using technology to support and manage unique learning journeys

2. Course design that works around reflective learning

3. Showing digital literacy-in-action, leading to positive online reputations

4. Teaching the employability mindset, including self-employment

5. Focussing on learning, and publishing accomplishments in the learning journey plan

6. Using technology to capture and present soft skills - the rounded person.


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LA TROBE UNIVERSITY

PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITYINTEGRATIVE LEARNING PORTFOLIOS ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

THE CAREER READY PORTFOLIO


With PSU placing great value on integrative learning and recognizing eportfolios as high impact practice, the

university adopted PebblePad in 2015 to enable the scaling-up of portfolio practice on programs such as the

dual credit high school program, Senior Inquiry. Students in Senior Inquiry are enrolled in a year-long course

that mimics PSU Freshman Inquiry, a theme-based collaborative learning experience focused on gaining skills for

critical thinking, communication, diversity and social justice, and ethics and social responsibility. As part of the

course, students use the PebblePad Learning Journey Platform to curate, reflect on, and showcase their

coursework as a means of authentically evidencing their progress. On the Master’s Level Post-secondary Adult

and Continuing Education (PACE) program, PebblePad fosters integrative learning by helping students make

connections through the likes of the purpose-built ‘memorable learning worksheet’ and by offering authentic

assessment opportunities to help students master and demonstrate essential skills to future employers.

PebblePad offers authentic assessment opportunities to help PSU students master and demonstrate essential skills to future employers.“

Career Ready Advantage (CRA) was developed with industry partners. It offers students opportunities to

attend career development workshops and networking events to develop skills and graduate attributes. The

challenge of how to connect CRA activity with student learning and skills development in the curriculum was

overcome through an implementation of PebblePad based on the Collect/Select/Reflect/ Present portfolio

model (Barrett, 1999). Custom PebblePad worksheets are published to the web, allowing simple one click

access to worksheets for students to write reflections and upload evidence of learning. Reflections of

co-curricular activities and evidence are then saved to a student’s PebblePad Asset Store, before being

organised in a ‘Career Ready Evidence’ Workbook containing pages for students to record personal

information and undertake self-evaluation activities. This PebblePad workbook becomes an important

personal collection for multiple purposes and touchpoints including key activities across the course in

midpoint and capstone subjects, as well as the creation of career portfolios.

The project demonstrated a transformative approach to assessment at scale while increasing the quality of student skills.“

BARRETT, H.C. (1999). THE ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT PROCESS http://bit.ly.eportfoliodevelopment

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MURDOCH UNIVERSITY

NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITYDEGREE APPRENTICESHIPS

BLENDED LEARNING IN NURSING [AWARD-WINNING]


Every apprentice at Northumbria University uses a combination of PebblePad digital workbooks and

portfolios as part of their degree apprenticeship. While workbooks contain records such as off-the-job

training records and mentor meeting records, the portfolio contains curated evidence of how the apprentice

is meeting the standards for end-point assessment. By using PebblePad, the university has found that the

longstanding issue faced by many universities of how to get material to external examiners has been

overcome. Indeed, the apprentice can decide what to share, who with, and for how long – offering a far more

robust system than email. The material stored in the PebblePad assessment space meets the university’s

requirements for ESFA audit. Ensuring that the apprentices fill in their record sheets is a challenge that the

university overcomes by creating an assessed module where apprentices have to present their four best

reflections, plus a 2,500 word reflection on their learning so far.

By using PebblePad, the university has found that the issue faced by many universities about how to get material to external examiners, has been overcome. “

Murdoch’s award-winning blended learning adopts a whole-of-course mapping and design approach to embed

PebblePad and eportfolio into the Bachelor of Nursing program to help students take responsibility for their

own learning, develop and record employability skills, clinical competencies and capabilities, and provide digital

literacy skills in a professional context. The implementation has been a huge success with students engaging in

learner-led activities across all areas of the curriculum, as well as being able to seamlessly share their clinical

practice insights and reflections with both clinical facilitators and faculty and receive feedback. Students can

also showcase their whole learning journey, theoretical and clinical, to their future employers in a readily

accessible format. Students were also able to make use of customised offline templates while working in clinical

settings through the PebblePad App, PebblePocket. Faculty has noted improved efficiencies, reduced costs,

and witnessed a shift in teaching from the assessment of learning to assessment for learning. The team’s

hugely successful approach has not only been acknowledged within the University, but their learning model

and implementation of PebblePad has been recognised more broadly at the 2018 Learn X Impact Awards.

The whole-of-course eportfolio approach has had a significant impact on students and this work represents a best practice model for us here at Murdoch.“PROFESSOR KYLIE READMAN, PRO VICE CHANCELLOR EDUCATION, MURDOCH UNIVERSITY.

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Transitioning from paper-based portfolios to eportfolios prompted the Occupational Therapy program to take a

‘whole program approach’ to eportfolio, using PebblePad. Mapping professional competencies across the curriculum

and building a ‘Competency Tracking Workbook’ was the first step. This approach enables students to understand

how the curriculum supports their learning journey and enhances their confidence and readiness to enter practice.

In the final semester of the program students complete the ‘Competency Tracking Workbook’ and provide evidence

that demonstrates how they have achieved competence against the Australian Occupational Therapy Competency

Standards and the University’s Graduate Skills and Qualities. The evidence is written in the same format used to

address ‘Key Selection Criteria’ for a job application. Students integrate their competency tracking workbook into

their ‘Transition to Practice’ eportfolio, which also includes a Professional Statement, a CV, a Continuing Professional

Development (CPD) Plan for the final semester of the degree, and a CPD plan for the graduate year.


UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COASTA WHOLE PROGRAM APPROACH TO EPORTFOLIO

The PebblePad implementation enables students to clearly see their learning journey and be confident in their readiness to enter practice.““

UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL MEDICAL SCHOOLWORKPLACE BASED ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK

R&R

When Liverpool Medical School introduced a new curriculum in 2014, it adopted PebblePad as a means of

moving away from restrictive paper logbooks. The implementation embedded portfolios into the programme

with the expectation that this would help to prepare undergraduate medical students for the lifelong

requirement to gather evidence of reflective practice. Accessible online and offline through mobile devices,

students use PebblePad to record their activities and experiences in any environment. This activity incorporates

both the clinical and non-clinical elements of the course over four-year cohorts containing approximately 1200

students. The process is supported by hundreds of internal and external staff all using PebblePad to monitor

student progress, enhancing the quality and quantity of feedback. As a non-modular course the School created

PebblePad workspaces to reflect the year structure of the medical programme, with students needing to satisfy

identified requirements in each year in order to progress through to the end of year exams. PebblePad now

offers the opportunity to manage and monitor these requirements throughout the entire School. In summary,

the introduction of PebblePad, as part of a wider Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) strategy, has significantly

improved the overall student and staff experience.

PebblePad enables the capture of real-time assessment data in challenging clinical environments and promotes the lifelong requirement to collect and curate evidence.“

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We help universitiessupport their students in every step, hop, skipand jump of their uniquelearning journey.

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About usWe are the creators of PebblePad – the award-winning Learning Journey Platform. As a company, we’ve spent the past 15 years blazing a trail in the learning, portfolio and assessment space, and we have absolutely no intention of stopping. Our mission is simple – to help learners shape and share their unique skills and attributes in an ever more competitive world.

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