Exemplar 4 Principal's Career Development Scholarships
Institution: e-Portfolio context: The Principal provides about 50 PhD career development scholarships annually. The scheme is designed to provide the opportunity for postgraduate research students to undertake a package of training and development which will help them to develop the necessary skills required to meet their career choices and offer them a breadth of development opportunities in areas such as teaching, public engagement, entrepreneurship, and research, in addition to their PhD studies. Details are available at http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/student-funding/postgraduate/uk-eu/university-scholarships/development
PebblePad is being used as part of that support process. We are seeking to develop and provide scholars with access to a range of resources or tools to support their development in their chosen specialist area, and especially to help them reflect upon their experiences.
Dates of provision:
Reason for implementation: Diverse group of students, in different locations, schools, with different time commitments & interests - but broad development needs are likely to be similar. Identifying exactly what they want to do can be difficult, but PebblePad offers tools which can be used to invite students to consider their motivations and interests, as well as to capture experiences & reflections.
Purpose/s: Personal Development Planning, Employability/Graduate attributes,
Learning processes involved: Information capture, Information retrieval, Planning, Reflection, Feedback, Collaboration, Presentation
Practice: Developing
Key staff involved: Director of Institute for Academic Development; Lead for each of the main strands (public engagement; teaching; entrepreneurship); e-portfolio support staff
Links to example/s
We have developed a PebblePad webfolio for the public engagement scholars, and held a hands on workshop to provide initial access & support. See http://www.pebbleweb.co.uk/edinburgh/viewasset.aspx?oid=129389&type=webfolio The intention is that the students can take this folio and edit it as they wish, the content provided is simply a starter set of information that we hope might be helpful. We are collecting feedback from the students and will ammend and develop this starter folio for future students, so hopefully the resources provided will become more and more useful.
Now we are working on a similar starter folio for scholars specialising in teaching, to help them plan stages in their experience, and to capture their learning and reflections at each different step.
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