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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
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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 – 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?
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