University of Plymouth Teaching and Learning Showcase 2025

AI Chatbots and Beyond: Student-Led Innovation in Inclusive Learning
This workshop showcases an innovative series of AI chatbots that simulates patient consultations, giving students realistic, flexible, and inclusive practice opportunities. Combined with a student-led, Co-creation AI Prompt engineering and Literacy series, this hands-on workshop explores how AI can enhance confidence, cultural competence, and ethical engagement across disciplines.

Simulating Limbs and Seeing Molecules: Practical Visualisation Strategies for Every Educator
Creative approaches to visualisation can transform teaching, enhancing impact, inclusivity and learning. These can range from tactile simulation of limbs of stroke patients to mixed reality projections of invisible molecules in air pollution. Each helps learners conceptualise things normally beyond their lived experience or sensory perception. This workshop will use practical examples to illustrate how these tools can be embedded in teaching any subject. We will share pitfalls and tips, highlighting how freely available software makes these augmented approaches accessible to all educators.

Using Drama-based Method to Build Practice Skills in Social Work Education
This hands-on workshop invites participants to explore the use of drama-based activities in social work teaching. Through interactive exercises and reflective discussion, we’ll demonstrate how methods such as role play and forum theatre can help students develop core practice skills, build empathy and enhance critical reflection. The session will also touch on key theoretical underpinnings – including experiential learning theory and applied theatre – while offering practical tips and space to consider how these approaches can be adapted to your own teaching context.

Supporting Student Learning in the Context of Generative AI – Principles and Implementation
This workshop will highlight the University of Plymouth’s AI education principles and guidance and explore recent research in how students and schools are using AI across teaching and learning. Interpreting and adapting this guidance by educators is crucial in developing AI literacy for all students. In turn, a schoolwide pilot implementation of this by the School of Biological and Marine Sciences will be presented. This will showcase key implementation considerations for staff and students engaging with generative AI to support student learning.

ABC Learning Design: A Collaborative Approach to Innovative Curriculum Development
Join us for this hands-on taster experience of the ABC learning design process. Our workshop facilitates collaborative practice, enabling meaningful conversations between teams, creating sequenced, engaging learning activities and is open to everyone.

Developing Interprofessional Learning with Hybrid IPL/EBL Sessions
This theoretically informed and practical workshop will draw on the UoP interdisciplinary learning framework developed as part of the HEFCE project. It will draw upon specific experiences developing hybrid interprofessional enquiry-based learning sessions within the Peninsula Medical School (PMS). It will give delegates a chance to consider what we mean by interdisciplinary/interprofessional learning, an evidence-informed framework and specific experiences from PMS with some pitfalls encountered along the way.

Embedding Sustainability Education in the Curriculum through Civic Engagement
This interactive workshop offers the opportunity for participants to creatively look at how we can couple the agenda of Sustainability Education with the civic mission of our universities and colleges. Drawing from experiential education and action learning theory, this workshop will present a new Engaged Learning Framework before sharing examples of innovative practice in this field from across the University of Plymouth. Participants will then be given the opportunity to explore how scenario-based learning can act as a helpful starting point for taking Sustainability Education practice beyond the classroom and into the civic world in order to engage students as compassionate change leaders. This workshop will close with information on the new Digital Community Hub that the University is establishing to help facilitate this type of transformative education opportunity locally as identified in the University’s new Education and Student Experience Strategy.

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