In this session, Shane Sutherland, CEO and Co‑Founder of PebblePad, reflects on key themes, practices, and insights emerging from MiniBash, drawing together practitioner stories from across disciplines and institutions.
Shane explores how reflective practice, learning design, and authentic assessment can be scaffolded at scale to support student agency, resilience, employability, and lifelong learning. Building on examples shared throughout the event, he discusses the role of portfolios, workbooks, templates, and timely reflection in helping learners make sense of their experiences—particularly in complex, practice‑based and work‑integrated learning contexts.
Key themes include:
- Reflection close to the learning experience and over time
- The role of scaffolding and learning design in supporting deep reflection
- Student agency, feedback literacy, and self‑directed learning
- Preparing students for transition from university to professional practice
- Scaling coaching, mentoring, and reflective support through technology
- Using PebblePad to surface the process of learning, not just outcomes
This session offers a strategic and pedagogical perspective on how PebblePad supports thoughtful, student‑centred learning design—and how educators can amplify the impact of reflective practice through simple, intentional structures.
This was filmed at Brisbane 2022 MiniBash.