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ePortfolio trialSchool of Medicine

Sue Skinner & Chris Carapetis

Presentation to ETUG, July 2009

Target

• Improving skills, Basic Life Support– Evidence of learning; reflection, feedback– Flinders certificate in BLS

• Today’s health practitioners -– Increasingly required to show evidence of lifelong

learning– International developments in ePs

An ePortfolio system

Project team

• Professor Harry Owen• Chris Carapetis• Sue Skinner• Kris Hayres (medical student)

“Capture critical moments in learning”

Requirements, opportunities

Student centric

Good support

Reliable, stable

Interoperable

Secure

Usable

Accessible

Affordable

Build our own

Open source- eg Mahara

Commercial systems- eg Blackboard WebCT, Desire2Learn, or other

Australian ePortfolio

Project & forumAeP

QUT, Feb 2008

2008 VC T&L

Innovations Grant

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Choosing a system

Student centric

Good support

Reliable, stable

Interoperable

Secure

Usable

Accessible

Affordable

PebblePad

PebblePad

• 500 seat license• 4 years• hosted• support• pedagogy• Aust PebblePad User Group

What does the name mean?

This is the PebblePadinterface

Pebbles + notepads

• Web-based; anywhere, anytime• Customise, make it your space!

• As easy as using Facebook :-))

• Forms can guide student thinking & reflection • Staff can create forms for their class to use

• No one else can see stuff until the student decides it is time to share

PebblePad Assets• Assets can be things users create in PebblePad, or

upload into their account

Assets

Create new assetsusing thePebblePad

tools

Upload filesfrom your computer

Share assets• No one can see your assets until you send them to a

person or gateway, or circulate the URL. • Use the Send option to allow other people to see one

of your assets.

Person

Gateway (submit to staff)

Web (copy & paste the web

address)

Assets

Send

Web folio• A web folio is a tool for you to compile a selection of your

assets in an ePortfolio• Your web folio is also an asset• Use the Send option to allow other people to see your web folio.

Person

Gateway (submit to staff)

Web (copy & paste the web

address)

Assets

Select & describe assets

to include in a web folio Web folio

(is also an asset)

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A web folio

… An organised collection of work that displays your knowledge, understanding, skills, accomplishments, interests

… Collected, organised and presented in digital form

The trial: medical students

Kept it small & focused on ‘Life support’ skills– Years 1 to 4, Basic >>>> Advanced skills– Also, many other clinical skills

Evidence might includeo Video recordingso Compare self with guidelineso Reflect on technique, look ahead to improve and

maintain skills

URL: http://www.pebblepad.com.au/flinders

Tip! Make sure you use the browser check the first time you use PebblePad on your computer

Evaluation

• Pilot in 2008 was voluntary• 20+ medical students used it• Harry pleased with student work

• Kris Hayres (student) developed a full eP with samples of learning over 2 years of the medical course.– She sent the URL to introduce herself to her Year

3 supervisor for the 2009, a GP in the Barossa.

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2009

• BLS eP is now compulsory & assessed in Year 1

• Plan to extend through Years 2-4

• Begin trial with Speech Pathology students …

Speech pathology students

• Reports while on clinical placements • Build a personalised ePortfolio

addressing each of the professional standards for Speech Pathologists, incorporating evidence from the course

Connections

• Australian ePortfolio Project (AeP) Report, toolkit, links to international resources http://www.eportfoliopractice.qut.edu.au/

• Australian PebblePad Users Group

• Colleagues at UniSA

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Credits

• Professor Harry Owen• Chris Carapetis• Sue Skinner• Kris Hayres• Ingrid Scholten• Colin and Shane, PebblePad• VC Teaching & Learning Innovations Grant