Today I attended the first MiniBash post-pandemic since the last one, which was held and visited in 2019. A brief summary with some notes:
- Welcome and introductions
- Kenny Nicholl, Chief Growth Officer
- PebblePad: Enterprise-wide and experience-wide
- Shane Sutherland, Founder and CEO
- To change the way learning is designed, experienced and assessed
- Promoting PebbleVision – ideas etc.
- Teaching and Learning priorities 2025 publication coming out soon
- EWEWI model (got picked on by Shane how to pronounce it)
- Pre-enrolment/arrival – a workbook before they enrol, I have identified need for this for the new nursing course
- The more ‘swim lanes’ we can cross the better the experience? Or select a theme to specify PebblePad use
- Expert Session 1: University-wide initiatives
- Ruth Payne, University of Leeds - academic personal tutoring
- PebblePad as a new ePortfolio system and personal tutoring initiative - what they wanted, what they did, what they achieved
- "Action plan:
- Introduce PebblePad to provide a space for reflective, student-led personal tutoring
- Introduce learning analytics for students and personal tutors to use
- Deliver across institution in September 2021"
- "3 principles of the tutoring workbook:
- The workbook should promote reflective practice (not easy for all students)
- Students should be able to work through the content at their own pace
- Students should be asked to contribute to toe agenda of personal tutorials
- Student-led to improve tutee engagement
- Setting expectations
- Students to help drive tutoring"
- David Grey, UKAT - professional recognition workbook
- Becka Colley-Foster, Edge Hill University - graduate attributes workbook
- Expert Session 2: Professional Uses
- Team eMORA (Midwifery), Sheffield Hallam University - eMORA workbook
- How to do certain PebblePad functions in a dropdown in workbook – e.g. how to tag
- Wakefield Learning Academy - social work/community workbook
- External assessor support – how to make this accessible to them before they get workbooks, as can only access the guidance in workbook once given access and got it.
- Martin Frood (Paramedic), University of Cumbria - paramedicine workbook
- Delivering Value with PebblePad Product and Engineering Team
- Growth, performance data and product updates
- Learning Services and The PebblePad Academy
- Iain Griffin, Head of Learning Services
- Learning design
- PebblePad help desk
- Community management
- Implementation management
- PebblePad academy
- Pilot of digital capabilities framework and wellbeing
- Can now create and report on custom tags in PebblePocket - useful to MYEPAD and NAPADs
- Expert Session 3: Student Success
- Rob Higson, University of Derby
- Aiya Steed, University of Strathclyde - degree apprenticeships
- "Clearer workflows for staff and students
- Focused Learning Adviser training on what they needed to know to monitor and assess student work.
- Introduce deadlines and guidance to scaffold student evidence collection and submission process."
- Training I can offer staff on what to monitor and check, as with students on where to access feedback etc
- "Model the end-to-end student/staff workflow and scaffold journey"
- "Invest in collaborative, iterative design/development process rather than asking academics articulate requirements (and expect you won't get it right at first)"
- Work into learning design process and facilitate like course design sprints
- The PebblePad Apprentices - John Mason and Christa Bridges
- Sharing their experience of PebblePad as part of their own apprenticeships
- Interactive Product and UX Session
- Participated in a group activity to redesign the dashboard of Pebble+
- Expert Session 4: Learner Journeys
- Steve Poulton, Sheffield Hallam University - lecturer in paramedic science
- Rachel Challen, Nottingham Trent University - Principal Lecturer
Overall it was great to reconnect in-person and get updated on what is happening across sectors. I wasn't particularly inspired to innovate, but nuggets of practice to improve what we are currently doing in our workbook designs and workflows. I had a couple lovely one to one catch ups with and Sarah Copeland and Lisa Gray.
All full recordings of the sessions can be viewed here.
A good summary provided by Jodie Young from PebblePad; 'MiniBash 2022: Tales from an uplifting celebration'.
