Dr Sarah Copeland, Lecturer in Digital Education from University of Leeds was a speaker at PebbleBash 2024 and presented ‘All carrot and no stick’. Click here to watch the video with the full transcript or if you’re having trouble viewing the video above.
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I’m Sarah, and I’m actually a curriculum redefined lecturer at the University of Leeds, and I wanted to share a couple of projects I’ve been working on in my school, which is the School of Healthcare, in how to use PebblePad to help with those approaches and pieces of work that don’t have any credit bearing components.
So, you know, essentially, no assessment stick, and I’ve got my co pilot image there too. And I think I thought of it first, Ben. I’d like to take credit for that.
So, firstly, so I’ve got two projects anyway that I worked on. So one is, sort of in the spirit of curriculum redefined. So as Jeff kind of mentioned, some of the schools are further ahead than others in terms of how they’re embracing, meaningful structural change, but I’ve been tinkering in the spaces where I can.
And so in our nursing program, I looked at biology and another project called CaSSL, which I’ll come on to in a minute.
So, in the School of Healthcare, we have three undergraduate, three postgraduate programmes. So I’m mostly focusing in the undergraduate work space, although I’d like to note that all six of our programmes are now using PebblePad since I joined a year and a half ago, so yay.
Our nursing programme, we cover three of the fields, that’s child, adult, and mental health. And many of you will know just how intense the nursing student education work is. Okay.
Right. I’m now running behind. So, we have a biology theme, which runs through our nursing programme for all three of the fields.
And because we have a spiral curriculum, there’s no dedicated biology module, which means there’s no dedicated biology assessment. So we, allow our students to engage with the content through self-directed learning.
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