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Friday 10th November 2023

Unveiling the all-new PebblePad website

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by: Alison McHugh

Since our inception in 2004, PebblePad has grown to become a trusted partner of higher education institutions worldwide. Over the years, we’ve developed our platform into the world’s first Learning Journey Platform, offering unparalleled flexibility to accommodate the broad spectrum of learning approaches. Today, we are entering an exciting new era with the unveiling of our freshly revamped website.

Our inspiration

Our journey has been one of evolution and growth. We’ve been inspired by the idea of a kaleidoscope, reflecting the diversity of our customer base while paying homage to our existing brand. As you navigate through the new website, you’ll notice vibrant shapes and patterns, representing the unique way institutions, educators and learners use the platform to achieve their goals.

The power of colour

Colour is a vital element of our brand identity. While retaining our signature colours, we’ve introduced a new dark blue hue, and each colour now corresponds to one of our five areas of expertise or themes. For added flexibility and accessibility, we’ve expanded our colour palette, providing a richer visual experience.

A fresh visual system

To enhance user experience, we’ve introduced a set of custom icons. These icons created exclusively for PebblePad play a crucial role in navigating our new website, maintaining brand consistency and with the new visuals bring abstract concepts to life for our audiences.

What’s coming next?

Our work doesn’t stop here. You will see many more exciting changes over the coming months, including enhancements to our community site and more product specific content. We are also dedicated to making our website as accessible as possible.

Enhancing accessibility

Although our new website was built with accessibility in mind, in our commitment to inclusivity, the next phase of the website will include conducting additional thorough accessibility testing. Our goal is to ensure that the PebblePad website can be used and enjoyed by everyone, regardless of their abilities.

Thank you for being part of our journey

We invite you to explore our new website and experience the improvements firsthand. Discover a more accessible, user-friendly, and vibrant website that better represents our vision. Your feedback is invaluable to us as we continue to evolve, so please feel free to share your thoughts. Contact marketing@pebblepad.com with WEBSITE in the subject header.

As we celebrate this milestone, I want to express my heartfelt appreciation to the exceptional team behind this project. In particular, I would like to extend a special thanks to Simon Flegg and Olivia Riley, whose commitment and tireless efforts were key in bringing this website to life. With a special thanks to our developer web developer Renzo for his incredible work in bringing our new website to life. I’m excited to share the website with you and look forward to the continued evolution of PebblePad.

Alison McHugh

Alison has 15+ years marketing management experience in the technology sector with responsibilities for marketing strategy and integrated campaigns across the Globe. As PebblePad Marketing Director, Ali spends her days spreading the word about the fantastic practice of our trailblazing users - and the pretty fab technology that allows them to do so.

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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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