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Reimagining ePortfolios for learning and employment in interior design

Learn how PebblePad-based ePortfolios are being piloted at Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Wilson School of Design to implement reflective practises at crucial points throughout its interior design curriculum. In this use case featured at PebbleBash 2024, Interior Design Program Chair Paola Gavilanez reveals the pilot’s initial findings, demonstrating how PebblePad-based ePortfolios are already helping to: Make […]

Alison Poot and Shane Sutherland Welcome to PebbleBash 2024

Chief Customer Officer, Alison Poot welcomes everyone to PebbleBash 2024, joined by CEO Shane Sutherland. -START TRANSCRIPT– So it’s my great pleasure to welcome you all to PebbleBash 2024. We’re super excited to be here after a very long journey of trying to have a conference here in Edinburgh, which has taken quite some […]

Reflections Poem

Head of Customer Succes (APAC), Jodie Young wraps up the event with a participating poem. -START TRANSCRIPT– It’s been an amazing conference, hasn’t it? Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Exactly. So falls to me I’m very fortunate to be able to do this, to just share a little bit of, my impressions of the conference with […]

ePortfolios in immersive service-learning

Chelsea Redger-Marquardt from Wichita State University presented at PebbleBash 2024 on ‘ePortfolios go to the Parks: Lessons learning from Honors immersive service-learning and leadership academic program.’ -START TRANSCRIPT– And so, together with my colleagues, Doctor. Kimberly Engber and Erin Valentine, we put together this case study looking at a three year journey for a signature […]

Using interdisciplinary PebblePad workbooks to advance ePortfolio use

Dr Leeann Waddington, Associate Vice President, Teaching & Learning, Dr Nishan Perera, Director, Learning Technologies and Educational Development and Samuel Kirk, Teaching & Learning Strategist from KPU (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) held a panel discussion at PebbleBash 2024 on the topic ‘Inspired by our core principles: Using interdisciplinary PebblePad workbooks to advance ePortfolio use.’ -START TRANSCRIPT– […]

Leveraging eportfolios for Community Care Licensing education

Junzhong Zhang, Lecturer in Digital Education from University of Leeds was a speaker at PebbleBash 2024 and presented ‘Empowering Community Care Licensing education: Leveraging eportfolios for inclusivity, flexibility and skill enhancement’. -START TRANSCRIPT– Hello, everyone. Thank you for having me here today, and thank you for the introduction. If you find my name a little […]

From universal to universally equitable

Dr Teresa Johnson, High-Impact Curriculum Expert Office of Academic Enrichment from The Ohio State University was a speaker at PebbleBash 2024 and presented ‘From universal to universally equitable: An integrated eportfolio requirement at a large land grant university as a first step toward an equitable HIP for all students.’ -START TRANSCRIPT– I am Teresa Johnson […]

Panel Discussion – Centering students’ social positioning and equity consciousness

Andrew Longhofer, Director of Student Experience and Professional Development (School of Pharmacy) from Pacific University was joined by Sonja Taylor, Director Senior Inquiry and Dr Óscar Fernández, Assistant Professor of Teaching from Portland State University for a panel discussion at PebbleBash 2024 and discussed ‘I won’t share that because it’s too personal: Centering students’ social […]

Integrating PebblePad into a Master of Public Health Capstone Course

Jennifer Yessis, Associate Professor and Associate Director and Katherine Lithgow, Senior Educational Developer, Integrative & Experiential Learning from The University of Waterloo were speakers at PebbleBash 2024 and presented ‘Integrating PebblePad to adapt the Student-Led, Individually Created Course Model into a Master of Public Health Capstone Course: What we learned.’ At the University of Waterloo’s […]