Threading Water UCC’s Plunge Into PebblePad Dr Eileen O’Leary, UCC

Brief History ePrePP - electronic Preparation for Professional Practice ePrePP Inter-Professional Learning Requirement for tracking CPD by the respective accrediting bodies (MCI, NMBI, PSI) Inter-professional collaboration (disciplines and institutions) Nationally Funded

Technology to facilitate transition to Professional Practice Students Document & Record Learning – Competencies Reflect on Learning & Training – Reflection Diary Identify & Fulfil Knowledge Gaps – Digital Resources Staff Facilitate feedback & assessment Tracking CPD Intended Outcomes

Student Involvement – Focus group Some of our placements are fantastic but sometimes you get the feeling that the tutor doesn’t really know what we want It might just work but can we please have it on an app There is a whole range of stuff out there and we all have our favourites but it would be great to record some of our cases I guess I don’t really know why medics prescribe some drugs I wonder if anyone knows what it is like to be a nurse Identifying knowledge Gaps Standardise teaching and maximise learning opportunities Easy Access/readily available Greater emphasis on IPL

Why PebblePad? For Students Personal learning space Easy access – ‘one stop shop’ for information Operate on mobile devices For Staff Premade & custom designed templates (students as users & creators) Track and assess competencies Single sign in facility Shared learning – collaborations Integrated with Blackboard Free life long access Generate reports Can track hours Recording student achievement is more transparent Security

Current USER Base Pharmacy 70 First year students 70 Placement tutors 6 Demonstrators 7 Academic Staff, 1 Admin Staff, 1 Technical Staff Nursing Roll out in May to 30 nursing students and preceptors IT Tralee (ePrePP partners) 60 Third year students TCD (ePrePP partners)

Types of Documents Created Workbooks for Placement Workbook for behaviour assessment in Lab Mimic of the CCSAT Used to self-assess against the Core Competency Framework Mimic of the IIOP CPD Cycle Used for Hospital visit Impromptu learning Webfolio for Pharmaceutical Chemistry team project Test potential for virtual synchronous and asynchronous IPL Worksheet of activities assessing behaviours across all Year 1 Worksheet of behaviours linked to calculations assessment

To get buy-in Held meeting with all staff & with each discipline Held meetings with and surveyed demonstratorssurveyed demonstrators Held training and created ‘how to’ guide for demonstrators‘how to’ Held interim meeting with demonstrators Telephoned off-site tutors individually Mailed these tutors a ‘how to’ guide‘how to’ Trained students to assist tutors

Midway Feedback Staff & Students needed training We set up weekly sessions Students need user guide We placed ‘how to’ guides as links as they are needed Disliked - Repetition for chemistry lab Explained that consistent achievement was required Lack of confidence with the reflection process Gave examples of reflections IIoP presenting on reflection

Our Experiences - positive Easy to use Great support form PebblePad help team Good instructional videos and help section Good website with sample implementation plans Capability of mimicking what is expected of professionals (real preparation for real life)

Love! The duplicate button Ability to create a customised workbook Ability to ‘amend’ workbook after it is rolled out Variety of ‘measurement scales’ Everything is submitted to the one place Auto-submit Collections Can add evidence to support achievement Option of workbooks/sheets as one use only

Issues!! Does not auto correct or total marks Reports (per page, not per workbook) Tags are lost if page becomes part of a workbook A new section always goes to the bottom Slow to open page if there are a lot of tasks to complete on it No way of filing templates Assessors can’t add feedback using the evidence button Different capabilities to insert links & images Worksheets/workbooks Folio/webfolio Conversations

Discussion Points…. Getting students started Generating user guides Re-ordering work experience not possible (CV) Issues with HSE firewalls Lack of Wifi access in remote areas (live nursing interviews) Interim training and assessment visits from PebblePad technologist?

Cartoon credit: Canadian Inter-professional Health Collaborative PHARMACY Medicine Dream Use of PebblePad……