Exemplar of use 2 - University of Edinburgh


 

An overview of use

 

Exemplar  2  BUSINESS STUDIES  

The compulsory non-credit bearing course (Career Development Planning) is run over approximately eight weeks for Business Studies students. The e-portfolio (PebblePad) is used within the course, in the first instance through tools such as the Graduate Attributes Profile,  the CV, the Action Plan tool and the blog tool. The compulsory assignments are: the action plan, the CV and the blog. Those three are collected digitally using the PebblePad's gateway tool.

 

More information: http://www.employability.ed.ac.uk/CaseStudies/BUS-CDP.htm 

 

Institution: e-Portfolio context:  

 

The compulsory non-credit bearing course (Career Development Planning) is run over approximately eight weeks for Business Studies students. The e-portfolio (PebblePad) is used within the course, in the first instance through tools such as the Graduate Attributes Profile,  the CV, the Action Plan tool and the blog tool. 

 

Dates of provision: since 2009

 

Reason for implementation: to provide the Career Development Planning Year 2 students with easy to use digital forms and templates that focus on career development issues

 

Purpose/s: Please select the most appropriate and add any others Personal Development Planning, Continuing Professsional Development of Staff, Transition to/from the institution, Work Based Learning, Employability/Graduate attributes, Assessment, Lifelong Learning


Learning processes involved:  Please select from these  and add any others  Information capture, Information retrieval, Planning, Reflection, Feedback, Collaboration, Presentation

 

Practice: fully developed
 

 

Key staff involved: 

Contact 1.
Name: Prof Wendy Loretto

Email: wendy.loretto@ed.ac.uk 

Position: Director of Undergraduate Programmes in Business and Accounting

Role in e-Portfolio implementation: Business Studies Programme Director

 

Contact 2.
Name: Ruth Saville

Email: ruth.saville@ed.ac.uk

Position: Careers Adviser

Role in e-Portfolio implementation: Tutor on the course