Rebecca Scriven, Senior Learning Designer, Centre of Learning and Teaching, from ECU (Edith Cowan University) presented at PebbleBash 2024 on ‘Transforming a student placement portfolio: A seven-year evolution towards personalized learning and success.’ You can read a small snippet of the video transcript below. Click here to watch the video with the full transcript or if you’re having trouble viewing the video above.
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So, ECU is a young university in Perth, Western Australia. We have around thirty thousand students and two thousand staff. I’m a senior learning designer with a central team of learning designers for teaching quality, so from the Centre of Learning and Teaching.
ECU began using PebblePad in around, I think it was 2014.
And I can remember Alison jetting in and introducing PebblePad to us as a team. And then we were tasked with going out to our assigned schools and promoting the use of PebblePad.
And none of my pictures are showing up.
Here comes the man.
So I would like to, first off start by acknowledging the Noongar people who have, journeyed through and are the custodians of the land on which ECU campuses are situated.
And, as we’ve been talking a lot about storytelling, the Noongar people, that is a main part of their culture. So that’s how they pass on all their traditions and their catagen, which is their knowledge. So I’d like to pay my respects to elders past and present, and to indigenous peoples of all lands.
So, this is a story, that I was going to tell about myself, our learning designer, and Brooke, an early career academic.
So, she’s the unit coordinator of two placement units at our university.
So, this is a picture of me with the happiest animal in the world. And if you would like to Google that, that is what you will find. You’ll find not a picture of me, but a picture of a quokka.
And if you ever get to Perth, Australia, you must visit Rottnest Island and go and have a selfie with a quokka. And this is Brooke. She’s on maternity leave at the moment, so that’s her newborn son.
And, when we sat down to discuss writing up a case study, we reflected on the last seven years that we’ve been working together. So we’ve become great friends over over that time. And we recorded the chat so that I could go over it while writing up the case study.
So when I first met Brooke, she was struggling to mark paper based portfolios, which were handed to her, at the end of a year long unit. And she was they were in lever arch files, they were pretty thick, full of papers and she was struggling to mark them but also carting them backwards and forwards from home to work.
So when PebblePad was introduced to ECU, and I was encouraged to go out and find ways to promote PebblePad, I suggested that we move everything online for her.
And we began talking about her assessment and her students, and she was having a lot of trouble keeping track of her students because they were going out on placement and they would just disappear for certain amounts of time and she wasn’t sure whether they were, on track. And so this was a great tool for her.
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