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E-portfolios, employability & Policing Studies

Simulated Workplace LearningFor Enhancing Employability

hlynch@csu.edu.au Ed Designer, CSU Policing

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What comes beforeA new scripted, scenario based, spiral curriculum for police recruit training

Digital classroom delivery

Students with computers in the classroom

Students with a Study Guide in .epub which provides access to all digital resources used in each lesson

PebblePad e-portfolio• Deliver learning content

• Provide opportunities for the collection and aggregation of simulated work product

• Initially for assessment, and reflection to benefit for future learning (post recruit training)

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Why PebblePad?Opportunities for students to: • Gather evidence of achievement and progress• Keep that evidence for post recruit training• Get feedback that can be shared (or not)

Opportunities for us to:

Review and support student learning – simulated work environment

Distribute learning content just using one link

Easily updated - link endures beyond content changes

Content easily exported and delivered via Equella as a website (an excellent backup system)

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Challenges

• Getting students to hit the ground running with e-portfolio use – gateways and webfolios

• Getting teaching staff to do the same• Working with the large number of items that

students had to upload and staff had to mark/provide feedback

• Developing marking/feedback processes within PebblePad

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Preparation – abiding by the 6 P’s

Targeted PebblePad “How to Guide” pre attendance compulsory orientation

Pre-made webfolio templates in the Gateway

Staff PL opportunities – benefits for students, how to do what was required.

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SolutionsPreparation – abiding by the 6 P’s

Targeted PebblePad “How to Guide” pre attendance compulsory orientation

Pre-made webfolio templates in the Gateway

Staff PL opportunities – benefits for students, how to do what was required.

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Successes Clear majority of students got moving quickly practicing creating and uploading products

Pre-made webfolio templates in the Gateway very useful

Academic staff mostly came to grips with basic functions

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Big mistakes ?Too many items in too short a time with too short marking turnarounds

Rubrics based marking system required a complicated process of generating and returning feedback to students

With large numbers of students staff and products they system became very slow which was a real “turn off”

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Just some of the contributions from just one student?

Try 100 students ! Next stop 400 students

One too, too busy gateway.

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What we do now? Products still created but not marked in e-portfolio

Products do not contribute to assessment now

Products must be created but feedback on products is part of classroom time.

Upload to e-portfolio not compulsory but strongly encouraged

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Questions? Some prompts?

Is this matching your experiences of e-portfolio?

If so what aspects match up

If not what differences are there?

What impacts arise from how you ask students and academic staff to work with e-portfolios