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Alison Poot and Shane Sutherland Welcome to PebbleBash 2024

Chief Customer Officer, Alison Poot welcomes everyone to PebbleBash 2024, joined by CEO Shane Sutherland. Click here to watch the video with the full transcript or if you’re having trouble viewing the video above. -START TRANSCRIPT– So it’s my great pleasure to welcome you all to PebbleBash 2024. We’re super excited to be here after […]

Reflections Poem

Head of Customer Succes (APAC), Jodie Young wraps up the event with a participating poem. Click here to watch the video with the full transcript or if you’re having trouble viewing the video above.   -START TRANSCRIPT– It’s been an amazing conference, hasn’t it? Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Exactly. So falls to me I’m very fortunate […]

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.’ Click here to watch the video with the full transcript or if you’re having trouble viewing the video above. -START TRANSCRIPT– And so, together with my colleagues, Doctor. Kimberly […]

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.’ Click here […]

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’. Click here to watch the video with the full transcript or if you’re having trouble viewing the video above. -START TRANSCRIPT– Hello, everyone. Thank […]

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.’ Click here to watch the video […]

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 […]

ePortfolio assessment strategies for professional competency development

This is a summary of the Case Study submitted to PebblePad’s ‘Charting New Courses in Learning and Teaching’ conference. The University of Waterloo, a leader in experiential learning, partnered with PebblePad to streamline the assessment process for Master of Social Work students. A focus on authentic assessment to empower students to cultivate and articulate skills […]

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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.

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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