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Educating in an Era of Continuous Change

ASCILITE 2025

ASCILITE 2025

Future-Focused: Educating in an Era of Continuous Change

30 November – 3 December, 2025 | Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia

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PebblePad is trusted by hundreds of institutions worldwide including:

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Supporting the future of education

PebblePad is proud to be sponsoring this important event dedicated to navigating the dynamic landscape of education. Through keynotes, presentation and workshops, ASCILITE explores forward-thinking approaches that prepare both learners and educators to thrive in our digital-first world with a powerful focus on adaptability, innovation and sustainability.

PebblePad supports this vital mission, bringing together flexible ePortfolios, workbooks and assessment tools into a single powerful platform designed to support modern learning.

From crafting reflective learning experience to modernising assessment practices, visit us at our stand to uncover how PebblePad can help support you in a sector undergoing such rapid change.

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Speaker Session

Buying Off the Plan: Unpacking How We Will Build Course-Wide Assessment

In a session sponsored by PebblePad, Professor Mollie Dollinger, Director of Assessment 2030 at Curtin University, explores how assessment must evolve to meet the demands of the modern era.

As the lead of a whole-of-university strategy for assessment transformation, Dollinger brings deep expertise in driving educational innovation – making her ideally positioned to share insights on the future of assessment in education.

  • Join us for Professor Dollinger’s presentation at 9:30 PM – 9:55 PM on Wednesday, 3rd November.

Designed for the ambitions of higher education

PebblePad is used across the entire student learning journey as well as for institutional-wide initiatives. In this video, discover how we support teaching, learning and assessment ambitions across five key themes:  

  • Authentic assessment and feedback
  • Flexible learning design
  • Belonging, wellbeing and success
  • Employable and future-ready
  • Professional identity and capability

Meet the team

Meet the PebblePad team at Booth 10 who are ready to answer your questions and share insights on how our platform can help you to plan your assessment programs’ future:

Robert Vick

Director of Business Development (AU)

Jacqui Patten

Customer Success Manager

Want to talk before or after ASCILITE 2025?

Contact the PebblePad team in Australia to explore how we are helping institutions seize a generational opportunity to modernise assessment practices across entire programs.

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About PebblePad

PebblePad is the only ePortfolio, workbook, and assessment platform designed to unify the entire learning journey, from pre-arrival to alumni. 

Built to meet the evolving needs of higher education, PebblePad provides educators with powerful tools to support learning, teaching and authentic assessment at scale. Our platform seamlessly supports all activities, from the classroom to work experiences and temporary placements like study abroad.

PebblePad is an essential solution for institutions committed to fostering confident, capable graduates ready to embrace the opportunities – and face the challenges – of our ever-changing world.

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Curriculum Transformation at the University of Edinburgh: co-creation and the relationship between local innovation and institutional change

Talk description: I will use the themes of reflection and experiential learning, skills development and assessment (including programme level assessment and changes in assessment practice) to explore this process in more detail. This includes the link between disciplinary and institutional curriculum reform, learning from local innovations and changes, and using this to inform University level changes and support.

Bio: My current position is leading the University wide Curriculum Transformation Project. This is a major and long term initiative for the University considering all areas of the University’s undergraduate and taught postgraduate curriculum. Prior to this Jon set up and led the Institute for Academic Development (IAD) at the University of Edinburgh. The IAD provides University level support for teaching, learning and researcher development, including direct support for students and staff, and support for enhancement and innovation in curriculum development, the student and researcher experience. Jon has a PhD in petroleum geology.

Mission Possible: The DNA of a bespoke professional development program

Talk description: The diversity of students in higher education dictates that there cannot (and should not) be a single ‘silver bullet’ approach to address the complex challenge of career readiness learning. However, the reality of modern university structures is that delivering bespoke experiences for each student is a challenge in and of itself.  And yet, all things are possible with creative use of PebblePad to streamline delivery (for the university) and make it highly personalised (for the student). 

Bio: Gayle Brent is a Learning and Teaching Consultant (Employability) at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. Gaye’s specialist area of interest is developing and implementing strategies to enhance staff and student understanding of employability in both curricular and extra-curricular contexts. She completed a Master of Education and Professional Studies Research to explore the potential barriers and challenges to embedding employability-based learning in higher education curriculum and is currently completing a Doctor of Philosophy exploring the impact of an extra-curricular employability program on the individual student experience.

Dr Melissa Highton. Assistant Principal, University of Edinburgh

Talk description: A journey through the stories told by wicca data. How a neglected research data set was used by students to overturn historic injustice and shed new light on the lives of women in Scotland.

Bio: Melissa has worked for many years in higher education at some of the UK’s finest and most ancient institutions. In each place she enjoys discovering the hidden histories and less heard voices which can be surfaced in new ways using the most up to date and open technologies. She is a champion of playful and curious approaches to engagement with audiences on campus and online, and is an invited speaker at events about dangerous women.

Education is an Experience That Should Be Designed

Talk description: We have any number of problems and opportunities as universities, and universities must adapt to help students from diverse backgrounds develop the knowledge and skills they need to thrive and make a positive impact in the world. Key to those adaptations is understanding that we provide students with an experience. We ought to design them with intention and purpose. This talk with take up this argument and ground it within a large educational transformation project at the University of Leeds.

Bio: Jeff Grabill is Deputy Vice Chancellor for Student Education at the University of Leeds. Prior to joining the University of Leeds, Grabill was at Michigan State University (MSU) in the United States for nearly 20 years. He served Michigan State University as the Associate Provost for Teaching, Learning, and Technology. In that role, he was responsible for facilitating innovation in learning and educator professional development via his role as Director of the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology. Grabill’s research focuses on how digital writing is associated with citizenship and learning. That work has been located in community contexts, in museums, and in classrooms at both the K-12 and university levels. Grabill is also a co-founder of Drawbridge, an educational technology company.

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