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PebblePad and Personal and Professional
Development in the School of Medicine
Glenn MasonSchool of MedicineBlended Learning Forum June 2013
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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
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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
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Educational affordances of PebblePad
Collaboration
Formative feedback
Reflection
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What is personal and professional development?
• Doctors deal with people not machines• All those things that aren’t scientific!– Culture– Ethics– Society– Communication– Empathy
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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
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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
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The PPD team
• Curriculum designer with clinical background
• Educational technology advisor
• Year coordinators
• Tutors
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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
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Personal learning space
Personal learning space– Students use and create resources, submit activities etc.– Tutors can create templates and resources,
shareable documents etc.
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ATLAS or the institutional space
The institutional space- Primarily for tutors/staff- Provide feedback- admin/backend functions
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Year 1 learning activities
• Learning and studying medicine– First year out of high school– How do you learn?
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Year 1 learning activities
• The Hippocratic Oath– Collaborative and reflective activity– What does being a doctor mean to you?
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Year 2 learning activities
• Experiencing mental illness (reflective and collaborative)– Students fill out questionnaire on attitudes to
mental illness
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Year 2 learning activities
– Further classroom-based activities (film and discussion)
– Submit group reflections on tutorial
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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
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Year 4 learning journal
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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
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Possibilities for future use
• Problem-based learning– Group reflection– Personal reflection
• Clinical assessments– Submission of forms using PebblePad’s form
builder
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Questions?