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PebblePad celebrates global momentum with ten new customers

Tuesday 6th June 2023

Birmingham, 6 June 2023: PebblePad is pleased to welcome ten new institutions from around the world to its expanding customer base, showcasing the increasing recognition of its Learning Journey Platform. These partnerships emphasise the platform’s ability to create impactful learning experiences at scale and to enable students to demonstrate essential skills like critical thinking, digital literacy and discipline knowledge. The only Learning Journey Platform unifying the entire learning experience, PebblePad empowers students to confidently articulate and demonstrate their knowledge, skills, achievements and unique qualities.

The announcement was made during PebblePad’s annual UK User Group event in Birmingham, where educators and professionals gathered to explore the latest advancements in educational technology.

The ten new customers joining PebblePad include Cardiff University, the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), University of the West of Scotland, University of Sunderland, University of Sussex, the Royal College of Physicians, Universal College of Learning (UCOL) /Te Pūkenga, Ursuline College, Langara College, Georgian College and Northern Metropolitan TAFE. These institutions represent a diverse range of educational sectors and are located in countries including the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, the United States of America and Australia.

PebblePad empowers students to take ownership of their learning, providing them with the tools and capabilities to create, reflect upon and showcase their experiences throughout their learning journey and beyond. By leveraging the power of PebblePad, learners in these institutions can receive timely feedback, engage in continuous learning and build strong relationships with their peers, teachers and external facilitators.

Crucially, the platform’s focus on employability ensures that students develop the skills and competencies needed to excel in today’s and tomorrow’s job market, as well as the ability to articulate their achievements effectively.

“We are delighted to welcome these esteemed institutions to the PebblePad family. Their decision to join us underscores the enduring value and quality of our award-winning Learning Journey Platform” said Kenny Nicholl, Chief Operating Officer at PebblePad. “We are continually impressed by the new and innovative ways our customers harness the power of the platform, and we eagerly anticipate the success of our new partners as they leverage our solution to unlock their students’ full potential.”

Suzanne Thomas, Digital Systems Specialist at UCOL Te Pūkenga, one of the new customers announced today, commented, “PebblePad has provided a game-changing platform for UCOL Te Pūkenga, enabling our staff and learners to collect, reflect, and assess learning in a single location. With its flexible and user-friendly interface, PebblePad is a powerful tool to support our learners, especially those in work-based training, and ensure greater consistency in learning across the country.”

 

About PebblePad 

Founded in 2004, PebblePad is an award-winning online Learning Journey Platform designed to help educators deliver student-centred learning. Extending the powerful features of an eportfolio with sophisticated tools for supporting diverse teaching and learning processes, PebblePad helps bridge the experiential learning & assessment gaps that Learning Management Systems can’t reach. A unique set of feedback and assessment capabilities rounds out the feature set. PebblePad is successfully transforming learning at universities around the world, including more than 30 of the top ranked global universities.

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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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