Working together - the benefits of student-staff partnerships in supporting moves towards personal learning

Sandra Stewart, Carole Hunter

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationASCILITE 2011 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
Pages1184-1189
Number of pages6
Publication statusPublished - 01 Dec 2011
EventAnnual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education - "Changing demands, changing directions", ASCILITE 2011 - Hobart, TAS, Australia
Duration: 04 Dec 201107 Dec 2011

Publication series

NameASCILITE 2011 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

Conference

ConferenceAnnual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education - "Changing demands, changing directions", ASCILITE 2011
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityHobart, TAS
Period04/12/1107/12/11

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