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About PebblePad

Since 2004 we've been building software that helps universities support, guide and develop students – from induction to graduation and beyond.

Our mission

To create products which inspire educators to design learning experiences that empower students to develop and share their unique talents and attributes for lifelong success.

Our vision

Changing the way learning is designed, experienced, and assessed.

Our Values

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Inclusive

Respect difference, leave no one apart. Every Pebble is unique.
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Authentic

Be real, be true, be unapologetically you.
Professional Identityand capability Employable & Future ready Belonging wellbeing andsuccess Users Locations Date . Appointment Authentic assessment& feedback Flexible learning design Themes Themes HigherEducation Over 10,000Learners UK & I NORAM ANZ BENELUX APAC 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 guides forum customers Team guides forum customers Team Learning Journey Breakthroughs User Experience Development Integrations Discovery Actionable Insights Deep linking Names and Role ProvisioningServices Assignment and GradesServices Themes icon Newsletters Survey Professional Identityand capability Employable & Future ready Belonging wellbeing andsuccess Authentic assessment& feedback Flexible learning design Date . Appointment EVENTS • inclusive innovative supportive ethical authentic collaborative RSVP DOWNLOAD RECORDING FIND OUT MORE FIND OUT MORE SEE MORE VIDEOS FIND OUT MORE FIND OUT MORE DOWNLOAD RECORDING

Collaborative

Work together, be smarter, be greater, be stronger.
Professional Identityand capability Employable & Future ready Belonging wellbeing andsuccess Users Locations Date . Appointment Authentic assessment& feedback Flexible learning design Themes Themes HigherEducation Over 10,000Learners UK & I NORAM ANZ BENELUX APAC 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 guides forum customers Team guides forum customers Team Learning Journey Breakthroughs User Experience Development Integrations Discovery Actionable Insights Deep linking Names and Role ProvisioningServices Assignment and GradesServices Themes icon Newsletters Survey Professional Identityand capability Employable & Future ready Belonging wellbeing andsuccess Authentic assessment& feedback Flexible learning design Date . Appointment EVENTS • inclusive innovative supportive ethical authentic collaborative RSVP DOWNLOAD RECORDING FIND OUT MORE FIND OUT MORE SEE MORE VIDEOS FIND OUT MORE FIND OUT MORE DOWNLOAD RECORDING

Innovative

Dream big, embrace change, don’t be afraid to rock the boat.
Professional Identityand capability Employable & Future ready Belonging wellbeing andsuccess Users Locations Date . Appointment Authentic assessment& feedback Flexible learning design Themes Themes HigherEducation Over 10,000Learners UK & I NORAM ANZ BENELUX APAC 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 guides forum customers Team guides forum customers Team Learning Journey Breakthroughs User Experience Development Integrations Discovery Actionable Insights Deep linking Names and Role ProvisioningServices Assignment and GradesServices Themes icon Newsletters Survey Professional Identityand capability Employable & Future ready Belonging wellbeing andsuccess Authentic assessment& feedback Flexible learning design Date . Appointment EVENTS • inclusive innovative supportive ethical authentic collaborative RSVP DOWNLOAD RECORDING FIND OUT MORE FIND OUT MORE SEE MORE VIDEOS FIND OUT MORE FIND OUT MORE DOWNLOAD RECORDING

Supportive

Here for each other, health and family first. Unconditionally.
Professional Identityand capability Employable & Future ready Belonging wellbeing andsuccess Users Locations Date . Appointment Authentic assessment& feedback Flexible learning design Themes Themes HigherEducation Over 10,000Learners UK & I NORAM ANZ BENELUX APAC 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 guides forum customers Team guides forum customers Team Learning Journey Breakthroughs User Experience Development Integrations Discovery Actionable Insights Deep linking Names and Role ProvisioningServices Assignment and GradesServices Themes icon Newsletters Survey Professional Identityand capability Employable & Future ready Belonging wellbeing andsuccess Authentic assessment& feedback Flexible learning design Date . Appointment EVENTS • inclusive innovative supportive ethical authentic collaborative RSVP DOWNLOAD RECORDING FIND OUT MORE FIND OUT MORE SEE MORE VIDEOS FIND OUT MORE FIND OUT MORE DOWNLOAD RECORDING

Ethical

Do the right thing, locally and globally.
Pedagogy

PebblePad embeds an approach to learning, teaching and assessment design that has the learner at its core.

Our journey

Global expansion

The PebblePad community continues to flourish, welcoming 10 new institutions from New Zealand to Ohio, strengthening our global reach.
2023

Award-winning workplace

PebblePad was honored with a spot in the UK's "100 Best Companies to Work For."
2022

Accreditations achieved

Obtained accreditations including 1Edtech, ISO27001, and Cyber Essentials.
2019

200 and counting!

Celebrated the launch of our 200th feature/product.
2016

Goodbye Flash

PebblePad V5 marked the end of the Flash interface.
2015

Pocket-sized learning

Introduced the PebblePocket App, putting learning in your pocket.
2012

Publishing Pebblegogy

Published the Pebblegogy book with contributions from 30 international authors.
2010

Making an Impact Awards

Received the IMS Global (now 1EdTech) Platinum Award in Collaboration with Wolverhampton.
2008

Early recognition

Received the Learning Technologist Team of the Year Award from the UK Association of Learning Technologists.
2006

First paying customer

We welcomed our very first paying customer!
2004

Start with learning experience

PebblePad was born, founded by Shane Sutherland and Colin Dalziel, to prioritise the learner and their learning experience.
TODAY
2024

Championing Women in Tech

Christa Bridges has been awarded Apprentice of the Year, and we are also celebrating the achievements of women across the company, with our CTO, Toni Lavender, being named a finalist in two categories: Innovator of the Year and Shining Star.
2022

Speaking Dutch

Launched the Netherlands language pack.
2022

Millions of empowered users!

Celebrated surpassing 100 valued partner institutions, with millions of users worldwide.
2018

Embracing multilingualism

Expanded our language capabilities, beginning with Welsh.
2016

Stateside launch

Four new partners join the community, representing both the United States and Canada.
2014

Introducing workbooks

Launched Workbooks, a beloved feature among our users.
2011

Going international

Held our first international community conference in Shifnal, UK.
2010

G’day Australia

Overwhelmingly positive feedback and interest from down under and four new Australian partners join the PebblePad community.
2007

Opening our UK office

Transitioned from Shane's garage to the eInnovation Centre in Telford.
2005

Pilot at University of Wolverhampton

Our journey began with our first ePortfolio pilot at the University of Wolverhampton.
2004

Our people

We’re an ever-growing band of innovators and educators, now almost 100-strong with employees based in 4 countries.

Welcome to PebblePad

“In 2004, we embarked on a remarkable journey with a vision to transform education. While the education technology landscape of the time was primarily focused on content delivery, I carried two distinct passions within me: a commitment to putting the learner’s experience at the forefront and an unwavering desire to empower individual educators. These passions served as the driving force behind the creation of PebblePad, our innovative Learning Journey Platform. We set out to develop a learning platform that helped educators help their learners to plan for, make sense of, and make connections between their diverse learning experiences. Today, as more and more institutions align with our vision for student success, I am incredibly proud of the platform and the culture we’ve created.”

Shane Sutherland

Justin Reilly

Chief Executive Officer

Shane Sutherland

Chief Academic Officer

Toni Lavender

Chief Technology Officer

Andrew Galloway

Chief Financial Officer

Ali McHugh

Marketing Director

Andy Taylor

Chief Revenue Officer

Sallie Allen

Head of People and Talent

Alison Poot

Chief Customer Officer

Why choose PebblePad?

Trusted Experts

We’re more than a little proud of our 19-year track record of helping universities scaffold learning journeys which make a meaningful difference to student success.

Customer First

We’re big enough to be trusted by leading organisations across the globe, but small enough to value every partner. It’s why our customer-base, just like our team, is growing year on year.

Unique Capability

PebblePad offers unrivalled capability when it comes to student-centred learning – helping universities transform the learning journey on and off campus – at any scale, across any context.

Secure & Reliable

Our customers rely on us to support business-critical activity at scale, 24 hours a day. You only need to look at our uptime and usage data to see that PebblePad is a platform you can trust.

Our platform

Use our Learning Journey Platform to help your learners to plan for, record and reflect on learning experiences, and collect, curate, share and showcase evidence of their evolving capabilities.

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Services

Reach your goals with our dedicated customer success, onboarding, learning design, training and support teams.   

Training

Empower your team with training from the PebblePad Academy to ensure you can harness the full capabilities of the platform and train and support your users for maximum benefit.

Support

Get world-class support from our global support team, with guaranteed response times and next level assistance and guidance for your internal support teams. 

Onboarding

From planning to implementation, install, integrations, training and go-live, enjoy the support of our dedicated onboarding team to get your people up to speed quickly.

Learning Design

Collaborate with our team of Learning Designers to plan, design and build pedagogically strong PebblePad resources and workflows that drive adoption and achieve desired outcomes. 

Consultancy

Use the expertise of our team of trained educators to help you translate your teaching and learning objectives into powerful PebblePad workflows. 

Customer Success

Achieve your strategic goals and realise the true value of PebblePad with the guidance and support of your dedicated Customer Success Manager. 

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If you want to talk to a team who really understands
your world, please get in touch today.

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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.

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Gaining CPD with PebblePad

PebbleBash 2024, a biennial international PebblePad conference, to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in June 2024.  PebbleBash brings together PebblePad practitioners from around the globe to share practice and discuss the opportunities and challenges that the use of a learning and teaching platform like PebblePad presents.

As many of PebblePad’s customers are undertaking initiatives to reshape the curriculum, PebbleBash provides an opportunity to exchange insights, best practice and renew ideas for creating exceptional learning experiences, aligned with evolving student needs.

Attendees will benefit from the opportunity to:

  • Learn about methods from expert practitioners who have overcome similar challenges
  • Learn how PebblePad is being used to help education institutions tackle some of the key themes in the HE sector: Authentic assessment and feedback, Flexible learning design, Belonging, wellbeing and success, Employable and future-ready and Professional identity and capability
  • Learn about strategies for implementing PebblePad at scale, resources and processes for training and support, reporting and learning analytics, integrations and administration.
  • Network within the community and meet and speak with the PebblePad leadership, implementation and development teams.

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.

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.

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.

Disclaimers

The event agenda is correct at the time of publishing. As with all events, we may need to alter or modify aspects of the agenda.

While we take every precaution to ensure the safety and security of our events, Pebble Learning Ltd recommends you review insurance policies to ensure adequate coverage, especially in the realm of business travel.

We will be recording (audio/video) the presentations during the event. A conference photographer will also be capturing moments for our highlights reel. The video and photography will be used to share insights and market PebbleBash to the wider HE community. We do not give automatic refunds, please see the cancellation policy in the FAQs.

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