Professional portfolios: Unlocking success in midwifery education

Using Portfolios to Enhance Teaching and Learning in Midwifery

PebbleVision -Welcome to PebbleVision & PebblePad

This video offers an introduction to our video channel, PebbleVision, and the PebblePad Learning Journey Platform. Transcript: Portfolios are still a huge part of the PebblePad toolkit. But it’s digital templates and workbooks, used to scaffold and guide learning which are really on the up across the globe. Add-in PebblePad’s integrated assessment and feedback capability […]

PebbleVision – Student-led, individually-created courses (SLICCs)

Dr Gavin McCabe from the University of Edinburgh talking about how PebblePad supports their innovative SLICCs initiative. Transcript: The flexibility and the structure of the platform is really allowed us to genuinely scale upand spread out our SLICCs initiative, and that’s been great to see. For us, it’s the fact that it is through this […]

PebbleVision – Nursing at Murdoch University

Nursing students use PebblePad workbooks to scaffold and portfolios to record their learning experiences. Transcript: Hi, Marianne. Hi, Tamara. Today, we’ve got David Hosco, a twenty two year old, mate who came to us after a motor vehicle accident. Okay. Should we go through his handover on PebblePad? Yeah. Sure. We’ve got a twenty two […]

PebbleVision – Tutorial & meeting preparation

Using PebblePad templates to help everyone plan and prepare for f2f and online meetings. Transcript: We often hear tutors complain that students arrive for meetings not having thought about the questions they want to ask. And from students suggesting that tutors know very little about them or what they’ve been doing. This idea is inspired […]

PebbleVision – Extra & co-curricular activity

Ideas to support learner engagement with optional or discretionary learning activities. Transcript: We see lots of examples of workbooks designed to augment the curriculum or to offer co or extra-curricular value. Learners can choose to undertake these standalone learning packages and the very design means they can be undertaken at a pace and place that […]

PebbleVision – Making sense & keeping track

Supporting students in self-directed and content-intensive learning experiences. Transcript: For students who are working through lots of content, especially when some of it is independently chosen and sourced, it can be all too easy for them to miss opportunities to collect evidence of their learning and experiences. Prompting students to reflect on the impact of […]

PebbleVision – Designing a research project

Engaging students as partners and co-creators of the curriculum through self-initiated learning activities. Transcript: Involving students in the co-creation of a credit bearing course can boost their confidence, strengthen and make explicit their graduate attributes and increase their self-awareness. One way to do this is by providing a flexible reflective learning and assessment framework to […]

PebbleVision – Revision & self study

Engaging students by prompting them to prepare, question & challenge the content they are learning. Transcript: Simply consuming content may not deliver the best learning, or learners. Embedding content along with activities can – at the very least – cause students to dwell longer on the content and make sufficient sense of it to be […]

PebbleVision – Enhancing practice-based learning

Using digital workbooks (containing scenarios and supporting theory) to underpin practice-based learning. Transcript: Practice-based learning is underpinned by an extensive knowledge base, a broad range of skills and adherence to a complex policy context that all need to be evidenced and performed in practice. Learners can sometimes feel overwhelmed with such a lot to make […]