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Using electronic portfolios to record enhance
learning in professional practice placements.
Maria Parks Alis Racey University Fellows
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Project background
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Overview

• What are e-portfolios
• How are students using them?
• Future developments

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What are e-portfolios?

• A personal repository of digital reflections,
  evidences of learning and experiences.
• A personal journal a feedback and collaboration
  system and a digital theatre - where the
  audience is by invitation only.
• Stored through web based software to enable
  sharing

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Store
Output
Input
Recording
Creating
ePortfolio Asset Store
Retrieving for Aided by searching filtering
Self Auditing
Tag
Uploading
Importing
Also Receiving
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Students using e portfolios

• 3rd year Full Time OT
• - Placement reflection
• 1st year in service OT
• - Reflection/ Assessment
• 1st year in service Physiotherapy
• - Reflection/ Assessment

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• http//www.pebbleweb.co.uk/yorksj/

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Feedback

• Flexible space
• Guided process of reflection
• Share items
• Recycle items

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Feedback

• Limited access to computers on placement
• Generic templates
• Duplication on existing paper based systems
• IT burn out!

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Potential Developments

• All OT and physio students to have PebblePad
  (with mobile phone access) from 2009
• Students to use as graduate profile with the
  potential to continue in the work place eg CSP
• YSJ Staff exploring potential for CPD records
• Clinicians to meet CPD requirements

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Further information

• m.parks_at_yorksj.ac.uk
• a.racey_at_yorksj.ac.uk
• http//www.pebblepad.co.uk/

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