Aliya Steed, Senior Learning Technologist, Education Enhancement from Strathclyde University on ‘The art of collaboration with faculty to design work-based learning (Engineering & Business).’ This recording is from our 2023 MiniBash community event which was hosted in Birmingham, England.
Collaborative work‑based learning in Engineering and Business explores how intentional, collaborative design can support complex work‑based learning at scale. In this talk, Aliya Steed, Senior Learning Technologist at the University of Strathclyde, shares how PebblePad is used across graduate and degree apprenticeship programmes to evidence learning, support employer engagement, and manage long‑running, highly structured workbooks.
The session focuses on the design process behind effective work‑based learning portfolios, highlighting the gap between high‑level educational vision and the practical realities of building sustainable, usable workbooks. Aliya explains how collaborative planning with academics, learning designers, and mentors helps clarify educational goals, define meaningful student artefacts, and avoid common design pitfalls.
Using visual storyboarding tools such as Miro, the team separates design from build, enabling iterative development, shared understanding, and confident academic ownership before any content is created in PebblePad. The approach supports clearer expectations for students, more robust evidence of learning, and better educational decision‑making across Engineering and Business programmes.
This talk took place at the studio, Birmingham in June 2023.