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

摘要: Personal learning is a complex terrain for students to navigate, and one that transcends discipline cohort boundaries. This paper reflects on the introduction of forum promote, encourage support student engagement with PebblePad, an ePortfolio / personal system. The provides informal network beyond their course/subject cohorts in which they can ask questions discuss issues as traverse technical conceptual complexities what many transformational approach. It has developed partnership between staff, emerging from suggestion, establishing itself under leadership staff support, but gradually undergoing role reversal so now take lead. Now nearing end its second year, demonstrates how staff-student partnerships benefit range stakeholders university community – academics, particularly mentors themselves.