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Professional identity
and capability

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Simplify the process of capturing skills
and evidencing learning

Support the development of professional capabilities by providing a dedicated platform for staff and students to record, reflect on and evidence learning.

Allow educators to provide personal, meaningful and timely feedback. Empower students to refine and improve competencies by reflecting on progress and feedback.

PebblePad enables the effective assessment and sign-off of competencies by educators on campus, or external assessors in the workplace.

Enable external assessment & feedback

Provide your students with a learning journey platform that captures learning wherever it happens, at any time in their academic and professional career.

  • Students add evidence on-the-go for one or multiple competencies.
  • Prompts nudge students to add context and justification for each piece of evidence.
  • External supervisors can access student work to provide assessment and feedback.

Prepare students for real-life clinical encounters

  • Create simple case-based learning workbooks for students.
  • Include simulations with video, audio files and other supporting documents for students to work through.
  • Customise the workbook for self-study and reflective learning or allow access for peer assessment.

Skill capture, evidence of learning and feedback features

Educators can design frameworks which allow learners to regularly self-assess their development, add evidence to support their developing capabilities, and remain connected to those supporting their learning through every step of their evolving journey.

Learners can add evidence and link to a competency framework using a wide variety of file types.

Access on-the-go

For students on-the-go or on placement, the app, simplifies the logging and managing of placement activity and allows work to be digitally signed-off by external assessors.

  • Complete forms on your phone.
  • Add photos or videos.
  • Save digital sign-off in the workplace.
  • Map evidence to multiple categories capabilities.

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"The gold they create as students... this is a lightbulb moment for them... when they begin to understand when what I'm doing as a student is absolutely essential for me as a professional."
Curtin University
“In PebblePad, seeing work develop live in an online space that teachers, workplace mentors, or other relevant staff can access at any time from any computer is invaluable.”
University of Bradford

Supporting evidencing of skills and capabilities

See how educators are using the PebblePad platform to make it easier for student to add evidence-on-the-go, provide context and justify their capabilities.

Customise templates

Design learning workbooks and templates to support specific skill profiles, competency frameworks, and self-audits.

Assess and verify

Add approvals to capability elements to indicate whether the evidence meets requirements. Assets may be locked to prevent further editing.

Secure sign-off

Enable digital signatures on templates for work to be digitally signed-off by external assessors on a mobile device.

Empower students to engage in
self-reflection

PebblePad offers a dedicated space for capturing evidence of learning and the development of skills and competencies, reflections, feedback and sign-off.

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Features and Functions Guide

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Built for the ambitions of higher education

Explore how PebblePad supports teaching, learning and assessment ambitions across five key themes.

Authentic
assessment
and feedback

Flexible
learning
design

Belonging,
wellbeing
and success

Employable
and future
ready

Professional
identity and
capability

Authentic
assessment
& feedback

Flexible
learning
design

Belonging,
wellbeing
& success

Employable
& Future
ready

Professional
identity &
capability

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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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