MARCH 16th 2020
Monday 16th March 202012/31/2025 11:59:00 PM
As universities across the globe try to work through the challenges and issues presented by Coronavirus, PebblePad CEO, Shane Sutherland, offers up a number of creative ideas to keep the learning and assessment wheels turning. Read Shane's blog post.
FEBRUARY 28th 2020
Friday 28th February 20201/1/2100 12:12:00 PM
JANUARY 31st 2020
Friday 31st January 20201/1/2100 12:12:00 PM
This month we attended the AACU Annual Conference in North America. An annual outing for Team PebblePad, but this year’s meeting in Washington DC was an especially positive experience. The conference invited participants to share their practice focused on “high-impact educational practices, inclusive pedagogies, authentic forms of assessment, and pathways to student success” – aspirations which form the raison d'être of PebblePad. It was encouraging to see just how many AACU delegates bought into what we see here at PebblePad as being common ambitions for strategic development in higher education, and how every conversation demonstrated an unwavering ambition to deliver on students’ expectations.
SEPTEMBER 3rd 2019
Tuesday 3rd September 20191/1/2100 12:12:00 PM
2019 has seen PebblePad partner with more trailblazing customers to showcase their innovative practice and take out another Platinum Award in the LearnX Live! Awards. Sarah Burkhart, Dana Craven and Anita Hamilton from the University of the Sunshine Coast won Best Blended Learning Model for their approach using a flipped classroom model to support their learners. The team members teach in Nutrition, Dietetics and Occupational Therapy degrees in USC's School of Health and Sport Sciences. The LearnX Live! Awards are an international awards program that recognises multiple fields within talent management across the corporate, education and public-service sectors. Learn more here.
AUGUST 14th 2019
Wednesday 14th August 20191/1/2100 12:12:00 PM
Medical education is a challenging and ever-changing discipline. As a result, medical educators are continually searching for new teaching and technology tools to prepare doctors for the crucial role they'll fulfil once they graduate. This short blog post from a new-ish addition to Team PebblePad, Paul Duvall, Implementation Specialist and resident expert on all things medical education, focuses on the current challenges faced by medical schools and discusses how PebblePad's Learning Journey Platform can offer solutions to overcome them. The blog post also contains links to our new medical education page and publication, which both contain several case studies (including an award-winning example) from the world of medicine and the healthcare sector. Read the blog post here
MAY 7th 2019
Tuesday 7th May 20191/1/2100 12:12:00 PM
Ever since their inception, ‘eportfolios’ seem to have been typically associated with showcasing examples of completed work, rather than for sharing and receiving feedback on work, projects and ideas in progress. And while examples of portfolio practice have often come from disciplines like nursing and teaching, we have over our years of PebblePaddling (15 and counting) heard about innovative examples of eportfolio practice in many other disciplines, but often these have been viewed as atypical. How wonderful then for personal learning advocates and the wider STEM community to have at their disposal the excellent collection of use cases brought together by the superb team in Griffith Sciences. Learn more here
APRIL 5th 2019
Friday 5th April 20191/1/2100 12:12:00 PM
Our international conference, PebbleBash, is something special – this is not just the idle boast of your proud hosts and organisers, but something our delegates tell us after every PebbleBash event. So we thought it fitting to invite two of our 2018 attendees, one for whom it was their first PebbleBash experience and the other a veteran of three, to share their reflections on the conference and a little of what they have taken away from the experience. You can read their reflections here.
MARCH 13th 2019
Wednesday 13th March 20191/1/2100 12:12:00 PM
FEBRUARY 12th 2019
Tuesday 12th February 20191/1/2100 12:12:00 PM
FEBRUARY 1st 2019
Friday 1st February 20191/1/2100 12:12:00 PM
Here at PebblePad we think about sustainability as making smart choices in everyday practice and we believe technology has a big part to play. That's why our latest blog post offers three ideas, supported by some award-winning examples of practice, on how to build sustainable change in Higher Education through the clever use of technology.