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 […]

PebbleVision – The flipped classroom

Ideas for structuring pre-class, in-class and post-class activities in a digital workbook. Transcript: One of the problems often encountered with flipped approaches is that students don’t keep up with the activities to allow them to make the most of the face to face learning. This approach has been proven to increase student success across all […]

PebbleVision – Professional storytelling with eportfolios

Using portfolios to present yourself and your work in a rich and creative way.  Transcript: Portfolios allow learners to tell engaging stories and give deep insight into their achievements and experiences. They’re also a powerful way for teachers, educators, or any professional, to present and promote their activity with peers, stakeholders or employers. In each […]

PebbleVision – Clinical case studies

Simulating real-world scenarios and clinical encounters using PebblePad digital workbook and templates. Transcript: In order to participate in placement-based learning students need to demonstrate a minimum level of competence. This approach prepares students for real-life clinical encounters with simple simulations that are engaged with prior to undertaking placements. They’ve also proven to be valuable where […]

PebbleVision – Group simulation projects

Collaborative workbooks and portfolios to develop students’ professional and personal skills. Transcript: Being able to work effectively in a team and collaborate with peers and stakeholders is a key employability skill. Having the experience of working in a cross-disciplinary team, or a multi-faceted project, develops new perspectives and teamwork skills. This example from James Cook […]

PebbleVision – Capturing skills

Using PebblePocket to record evidence of stages of skill development – anytime, anywhere it occurs. Transcript: From clinical, to musical, capturing any new skill helps to build a record of development toshow progression and to reflect upon. Finding time to do it isn’t easy. Helpful then, if it can be recorded wherever, whenever as long […]