“I think the value [in reflective practice and eportfolios] is in finding the patterns in yourself and in your learning and connecting them to a larger context outside of school, using that information not only to understand your values, but to see yourself, your work, and your goals in a more realistic way and take some of the external pressure and stress out of the school experience.” – WSD Student
As a result of a TLIF Grant, WSD Interior Design students (now graduates) Hailey Bell and Hailey Bassiri, completed their research on the perception of faculty, students, and industry in regard to eportfolios in Design. As a result of their hard work, they were invited to present at PebblePash 2024 in Edinburgh, and their study, “Reimagining eportfolios for learning and employment: A Case Study in Interior Design” was published in the Conference Book. See the eportfolio that chronicles the process and the product of their work by clicking on the screenshot below.
More KPU representation at PebbleBash 2024 …
Dr. Nishan Perera, Director of Educational Development and Dr. Leeann Waddington, AVP Teaching and Learning co-presented “Walking the talk: KPU’s experience with professional portfolios”. Here Dr. Perera shared his own eportfolio (shared in the Faculty, Staff and Leadership page of this site’s eportfolio gallery). Together they shared the Teaching and Learning Commons Team’s experience of “Walking the Talk” with the PebblePad workbook shared to the left.
KPU Student Researchers, Hailey Bassiri and Hailey Bell, returned to share their student experiences with PebblePad as part of an international student panel.
Finally, AVP Teaching and Learning, Dr. Leeann Waddington, Director of Educational Development, Dr. Nishan Perera, and Teaching and Learning Strategies, Samuel Kirk, led the final Panel discussion of the conference, Inspired by our core principles: Using interdisciplinary PebblePad workbooks to advance ePortfolio use.