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The Practice Manual: a platform for students to showcase skills development and learning
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Carr, AR and Hawkins, C and Angel, CJ and Lewis, RL and Finnen, MJ and Kemp-Smith, JA and Lobo, AI, The Practice Manual: a platform for students to showcase skills development and learning, Program Booklet, 26 November 2019, University Centre, pp. 32-33. (2019) [Conference Extract]
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Abstract
University College (UC) associate degree students are required to maintain a ‘Practice Manual’ which is an
online portfolio. Portfolios have been used in education for years to evidence learning and development,
showcase achievement, enable flexibility and creativity, and encourage reflective practice (Stefani, Mason, &
Pegler, 2007). However, what is unique and innovative about the ‘Practice Manual’ is that it has been
constructed in PebblePad, in a very different way, and in a way that we were originally advised could not be
done. This presentation showcases how the Experiential Education Team constructed this tool, and how it is
meaningfully connected to our practice-based curriculum and transferable skills and professional attributes
(TSPAs) framework; tailored to each course to ensure purposeful collection of evidence against technical
skills; and, most importantly, these online repositories can be individually distributed to students, saved by
students and adapted by students.
This ensures that students start their study journey with UC with a ready-made, tailored, and adaptable tool
that requires no initial ‘set up time’ for them. They can then leave with evidence of their acquired knowledge
(their academic record and testamur), and also the Practice Manual that captures industry-specific skills, and
employability skills (transferable across contexts), and that contains material they can refer back to and add
to over time, making it a future-relevant tool for lifelong learning. The presentation showcases the
development of an interactive, adaptable, ‘student friendly’ online portfolio tool that has the potential to
benefit cohorts outside of the University College alone.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Conference Extract |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | experiential education, pebblepad, practice manual |
| Research Division: | Education |
| Research Group: | Education systems |
| Research Field: | Higher education |
| Objective Division: | Education and Training |
| Objective Group: | Teaching and curriculum |
| Objective Field: | Pedagogy |
| UTAS Author: | Carr, AR (Associate Professor Andrea Carr) |
| UTAS Author: | Hawkins, C (Dr Cherie Hawkins) |
| UTAS Author: | Angel, CJ (Dr Christine Angel) |
| UTAS Author: | Lewis, RL (Mr Robert Lewis) |
| UTAS Author: | Finnen, MJ (Mrs Melissa Finnen) |
| UTAS Author: | Kemp-Smith, JA (Mrs Jennifer Kemp-Smith) |
| UTAS Author: | Lobo, AI (Dr Ana Lobo) |
| ID Code: | 136137 |
| Year Published: | 2019 |
| Deposited By: | Office of the University College |
| Deposited On: | 2019-12-02 |
| Last Modified: | 2019-12-03 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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