UKAT 2025: Learning Well

Celebrating the power of positivity and the joy of learning and university life.

7-8 April 2025 / On-site

Collaborating for success

PebblePad is heading to London to partner with the UKAT 2025 Conference for its 10th anniversary. Together, we’re celebrating the collective achievements, impactful initiatives and transformative collaborations that have – and continue – to shape the future of personal tutoring and academic advising in higher education.

We’ll be at the PebblePad stand, ready to introduce you to the only ePortfolio, workbook and assessment platform that unifies the entire learning journey. Come along and discover how we can tailor PebblePad to meet your unique educational needs as well as hear our success stories showcasing why we are a world leader in HE digital transformation.

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Supporting Students’ Skill Articulations with ePortfolios

Discover how the Kingston Business School uses PebblePad to capture students’ skill and attribute developments while enhancing their articulation and reflection expertise.

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Revolutionising Clinical Placement Tracking

Explore how PebblePad played a transformative role in clinical placement tracking in the Nursing and Midwifery programmes at the University of South Australia.

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Supporting Students’ Skill Articulations with ePortfolios

Discover how the Kingston Business School uses PebblePad to capture students’ skill and attribute developments while enhancing their articulation and reflection expertise.

Learn more

Revolutionising Clinical Placement Tracking

Explore how PebblePad played a transformative role in clinical placement tracking in the Nursing and Midwifery programmes at the University of South Australia.

Learn more

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Designed for the Ambitions of Higher Education

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

Meet the team

Drop by our stand to meet PebblePad’s Sabrina Blackmon to discover how our learning journey platform can be tailored to your specific educational needs – plus learn all about our partnerships with higher education institutions across Europe, Australia and North America. Australia, New Zealand and North America.

Sabrina Blackmon

Customer Success Manager

About PebblePad

PebblePad provides students with a holistic view of their diverse experiences across the entire learning journey, within and beyond the curriculum, from pre-arrival to alumni. Customizable for any discipline or initiative, the platform supports, scaffolds, and surfaces learning at scale and enables authentic assessment. By empowering students to confidently articulate and demonstrate their knowledge, skills, achievements, and unique qualities, universities are better preparing students for future success in an ever-changing world.

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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