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Employable and future-ready students

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Support students to develop and communicate their skills for career and life success

Help students to recognise skills like critical thinking, creativity, team work and entrepreneurialism. Ensure they can prove and articulate career-ready qualities as well as unique strengths.

Leverage PebblePad’s tools to prepare students for the world of work. Use the platform for skill tracking, reflective learning, feedback, collaboration and work-like experiences.

Use PebblePad to help boost employability – empowering students to evidence and articulate their capabilities throughout their studies and beyond.

Making graduate attributes meaningful

Support institution-wide initiatives with tools that can help students identify and evidence their developing skills and capabilities.

  • Provide structure with skills development workbooks and placement portfolios.
  • Evidence and map skills and achievements to graduate attribute frameworks or professional standards.
  • Create rich portfolios to showcase development and achievement.

ePortfolios provide deep insight into achievements and experiences

  • Showcase academic and life-wide experiences that bring skills to life.
  • Create personalised ePortfolios for different audiences.
  • Embed video, audio, links and badges to add depth to the narrative.
  • Private by default, students can share with collaborators, assessors or world.

Tools to help develop future-ready graduates

PebblePad helps students navigate, reflect on, and make sense of their learning experiences and how they might apply in the world of work.  Educators can support this process by creating workbooks for graduate attributes, professional standards, placements, and work-like experiences.

Offer creative ownership and freedom to record their experience as a blog.

Access on-the-go

The PebblePocket app allows on-the-go reflection, recording of evidence, digital sign-off and more.

  • Create simple records of your learning.
  • Add photos or videos.
  • Save, edit or remove assets on your device.
  • Continue to work when you don't have internet access.

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"And that’s what the students learn… that they can walk out and say I am world-ready, because I know my point of difference."
Dr. Sten Langmann
Edith Cowan University
“The goal-setting and reflective practice facilitated by PebblePad made students more responsible for their own skill development".
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Develop a point of difference

In today’s dynamic and competitive job market, graduates are seeking an edge. PebblePad provides tools that simplify the process of recording and reflecting on a wide range of experiences and achievements. It empowers students to convey their distinctive journey of personal and academic growth.

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Built for the ambitions of higher education

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Authentic
assessment
& feedback

Flexible
learning
design

Belonging,
wellbeing
& success

Employable
& Future
ready

Professional
identity &
capability

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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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