Padlet – Durham University Business School

What is Padlet?

Padlet is an interactive online ‘post-it’ board that can be used to support interaction and collaboration among students and educators. It’s free to create an account and you can access it via a browser or mobile device.

How can it be used in teaching?

Padlet can have many applications. Some examples:

Student feedback within lectures
- Students can be prompted to either add questions or give answers to questions posed to them at set times or throughout
Curation of artefacts
Collaboration/sharing (investigation findings, examples in practice etc.)

Video how-to guides

Padlet (getting started)- online bulletin board

Padlet (creating a post) – online bulletin board

Padlet (sharing)- online bulletin board

Further information

This paper presents findings of research into the efficacy of using Padlet with undergraduate students in Malaysia for interactive debates:

DeWitt, D., Alias, N. and Siraj, S. (2015). Collaborative learning: Interactive debates using padlet in a higher education institution. [online] Semanticscholar.org. Available at: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Collaborative-learning%3A-Interactive-debates-using-a-DeWitt-Alias/519dde364697b2163f9f6537722e44a6d5401865 [Accessed 9 May 2019].

This paper, relating to business education in a higher education context, presents a review of padlet as an educational tool and includes some interesting examples of how it was applied in learning designs.

Fisher, C. (2017). Padlet: An Online Tool for Learner Engagement and Collaboration. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 16(1), pp.163-165.