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PebblePad and Personal and Professional Development in the School of Medicine Glenn Mason School of Medicine Blended Learning Forum June 2013 PebblePad at UWS • New version of PebblePad called PebblePlus – New interface – Administrative backend now called ATLAS • Introduced beginning of at UWS in 2012 • Still in trial phase • Medicine, Music and Industrial Design What is PebblePad? • Often called an ‘online portfolio’ – PebblePad – Mahara • Developed using educational principles • Capacity to – Encourage student reflection – Encourage collaboration – Encourage ongoing formative feedback from tutors Educational affordances of PebblePad Reflection Collaboration Formative feedback What is personal and professional development? • Doctors deal with people not machines • All those things that aren’t scientific! – Culture – Ethics – Society – Communication – Empathy How are we using it in years 1 & 2? • Personal and professional development (PPD) component of MBBS degree • Covering a range of content areas – Year 1 • 125 year 1 students • 12 tutorial groups • 7 assessment requirements – Year 2 • 134 students • 12 tutorial groups • 7 assessment requirements How are we using it in year 4 ? – Students on Mental Health and Obstetrics rotations complete reflective learning journals over 9 week period – 135 students – 4 groups (~ 35 students in each group) – 2 tutors for each group The PPD team • Curriculum designer with clinical background • Educational technology advisor • Year coordinators • Tutors How PebblePad works • 2 ways to get in – Single sign on through vUWS (vuws.uws.edu.au) – V3.pebblepad.com.au using vUWS login • Flash-based But there’s also an HTML version/interface Personal learning space Personal learning space – Students use and create resources, submit activities etc. – Tutors can create templates and resources, shareable documents etc. ATLAS or the institutional space The institutional space - Primarily for tutors/staff Provide feedback admin/backend functions Year 1 learning activities • Learning and studying medicine – First year out of high school – How do you learn? Year 1 learning activities • The Hippocratic Oath – Collaborative and reflective activity – What does being a doctor mean to you? Year 2 learning activities • Experiencing mental illness (reflective and collaborative) – Students fill out questionnaire on attitudes to mental illness Year 2 learning activities – Further classroom-based activities (film and discussion) – Submit group reflections on tutorial Year 4 learning journal • Summatively assessed – Assessment rubric provides guidelines • • • • Obstetrics and mental health rotations 6 weekly reflections 2 wrap-up reflection 1 final post Year 4 learning journal Student feedback and PebblePad • Students unfamiliar with unorthodox interface – Need for more instructional material • Not fully compatible with iPad • Tutors need to be competent users – PPD sessions on PebblePad were conducted • Passage of time increases value of PebblePad – Hard to evaluate at this stage Possibilities for future use • Problem-based learning – Group reflection – Personal reflection • Clinical assessments – Submission of forms using PebblePad’s form builder Questions?