@inproceedings{cdc3b55e8fa24b38ab0c123a3ed43a29,
title = "Working together - the benefits of student-staff partnerships in supporting moves towards personal learning",
abstract = "Personal learning is a complex terrain for students to navigate, and one that transcends discipline and cohort boundaries. This paper reflects on the introduction of a forum to promote, encourage and support student engagement with PebblePad, an ePortfolio / personal learning system. The forum provides students with an informal network beyond their course/subject cohorts in which they can ask questions and discuss issues as they traverse the technical and conceptual complexities in what is for many a transformational learning approach. It has developed as a partnership between students and staff, emerging from a student suggestion, establishing itself under the leadership of staff with student support, but gradually undergoing a role reversal so that students now take the lead. Now nearing the end of its second year, the forum demonstrates how staff-student partnerships can benefit a range of stakeholders in the university community - from students to academics, and particularly to the mentors themselves.",
keywords = "ePortfolio, Forums, Networks, Pebblepad, Personal learning, Student engagement",
author = "Sandra Stewart and Carole Hunter",
year = "2011",
month = dec,
day = "1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781862956445",
series = "ASCILITE 2011 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education",
pages = "1184--1189",
booktitle = "ASCILITE 2011 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education",
note = "Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education - {"}Changing demands, changing directions{"}, ASCILITE 2011 ; Conference date: 04-12-2011 Through 07-12-2011",
}