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 the learning process more visible, enabling students to draw crucial connections between courses, across years and with other aspects of their lives.
- Enhance the graduate’s ‘narrative’, potentially improving job application success by offering more compelling showcase ePortfolios and interview presentations.
- Highlight a gap between design pedagogy goals and industry expectations, leading to the realignment of educational objectives with industry priorities.
- Introduce a level of flexibility that allows the overall quality of the curriculum to be continuously improved and adapted over time.
Importantly, the use case highlights how the project’s initial stages have already uncovered valuable insights – and identified several barriers – that have shaped the learning experiences of all involved in the pilot.
