University of Plymouth Teaching and Learning Showcase 2024

Celebrating outstanding teaching and learning across the South West
Teaching and learning showcase

  • Babbage Building

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We are delighted that the Teaching and Learning Showcase will be returning for 2024 on Tuesday 2 July.  
Celebrating Outstanding Teaching and Learning across the South West, the event will include keynote speakers, interactive workshops, demonstration stands, networking opportunities and optional tours of innovative spaces on campus. 
If you have any questions, please contact events@plymouth.ac.uk. Registration to attend the event will open shortly. 

SHOWCASE THEMES

  • Graduate attributes/educational gain: skills, attributes, knowledge exchange, what is educational gain?
  • Design and delivery of inclusive teaching, learning and student support: responding to student diversity (e.g. International, disability, ethnicity, age, commuter, part-time, socio-demographics)
  • Education for sustainability: what do you deliver?
  • Digital innovation – digitally and/or AI enhanced teaching and learning, challenges and opportunities, innovative use of teaching spaces
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PROGRAMME SUMMARY

PROGRAMME

09:30–10:00 | Arrival and registration
10:00–10:45 | Morning keynote – student panel
11:00–12:30 | Workshop 1
12:30–13:45 | Lunch/stands/sponsors
13:45–15:15 | Workshop 2
15:30–17:30 | Optional tours of innovative spaces
17:30–17:45 | Arrival for evening reception
18:00–18:30 | Evening keynote
18:30 onwards | Refreshments

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Helen Beetham is a researcher and consultant in digital education. She has published numerous chapters and peer-reviewed articles on topics from digital literacy to surveillance pedagogies, and from curriculum practice to feminist theories of technology. Helen has advised universities in the UK, Europe, North America, Africa and Australasia on digital education strategy, and has worked for international bodies such as the EU, UNICEF, UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning. 
Since 2004 she has played a leading role in Jisc programmes, building capacity for digital transformation in universities, and helping to centre the student experience in strategic thinking. 
Her co-edited book Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age is widely referenced, and her Digital Capabilities framework has been adopted by universities and libraries, and in healthcare settings, across and beyond the UK. Recently, her blog Imperfect Offerings has been recommended in the Guardian/Observer as ‘one of the sharpest and most thoughtful around’.

Morning workshops

Digital innovation
Join colleagues from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business and Library and Digital Support for this interactive workshop in one of the Babbage Building's new innovative spaces (Babbage 304) to discover how AI can be used to enhance student learning experiences and outcomes, as well as the ethics and implications of its use.
Design and delivery of inclusive teaching, learning and student support (in situ in Babbage – demonstrations in innovative spaces)
Join colleagues from the School of Computing, Engineering, and Mathematics, and Plymouth Institute of Education to see how two innovative spaces within the Babbage Building (STEAM labs and Babbage 410) can be used to enhance student learning and enable changes to the curriculum. The STEAM laboratories are active learning spaces where students can investigate the fundamental working principles of physical systems through experimentation. These facilities should be of interest to anyone from the STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) subjects. The Innovative Teaching spaces in Babbage can support different styles of teaching and student activities through a diversity of flexible furniture solutions and IT systems.
Design and delivery of inclusive teaching, learning and student support
A collaborative workshop featuring staff from the Schools of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nursing and Midwifery, Society and Culture, and partner college Exeter College (BSc (Hons) Public Services and BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care), to explore how inclusive teaching methods, lesson plans and assessments can allow all students to reach their maximum potential.

Afternoon workshops

Sustainability education in action
Led by Paul Warwick, Jacklyn Barry and Kim Davis with Alex Cahill, John Kilburn, Piers Revell and James Tarling. This workshop will be offered through a collaboration of a variety of presenters linked to the University's Centre for Sustainable Futures in Education. It will provide participants with the opportunity to consider how Education for Sustainability (EfS) can be developed through an active learning, place-based approach and in relation to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It draws from educational research that has informed the recent guidance for EfS, produced by the QAA and Advance HE on the sustainability competencies that graduates need to develop. This workshop will explore a variety of examples of how staff are supporting students to develop these competencies through a series of challenge based and active learning approaches. In so doing we hope this workshop will provide an open space for us to consider together the benefits but also the challenges of developing EfS in this active and participatory way.
Design and delivery of inclusive teaching, learning and student support (including simulated learning)
Hear members of staff from the Schools of Nursing and Midwifery, Health Professions and Psychology explain how the use of simulated learning experiences including Escape Rooms, interprofessional learning events and non traditional placements, can enhance students learning.
Graduate attributes/educational gain
Join colleagues from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business for this interactive workshop to discover how the use of board games can create an innovative learning environment for students. As well as hearing how designing and using games can benefit students during their studies and future careers, you’ll also have the opportunity to give some of the games a go for yourself.
 

Keynote speakers: Student panel

Viv Hocking
Viv Hocking is an early career research student at the University of Plymouth, focusing on the prevention of technology misuse in relation to violence against women and girls. 
Alongside this, Viv works with the Digital Education team as part of the Student Digital Champion Scheme. Viv started working with the scheme during its pilot in 2020 as an undergraduate and has remained with the team while continuing his education as a postgraduate researcher. Viv helps to facilitate co-creation in the role as part of a student partnership between the staff in Digital Education and the student partners that work as Student Digital Champions. Viv also works as a demonstrator within the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, teaching on the undergraduate and postgraduate Computer Science courses with a focus on cyber security and project management.

Isabelle Jones
Isabelle is an MA Creative Writing student with a range of experience in peer support gained from roles as a writing mentor, pre-sessional ambassador and various other student-facing roles. 
With aspirations to lecture in the future, Isabelle is preparing to undergo an English PhD in October. Isabelle’s research specialisations include gender trauma, sexuality and the supernatural. She has been awarded ‘Top Graduating Student’ for her work during her BA (Hons) English degree, and was recently published in Heroica, a feminist poetry journal, for a piece on female community and liberation.

Minou Shahin
Minou is currently studying Dentistry at the University of Plymouth. 
"The main reason I decided to become a dentist is because I enjoy communicating with people from diverse backgrounds and all age groups. My friends often describe me as a caring person, someone who looks after others and strives to make them feel happier. I am a foodie who enjoys trying new cuisines and desserts. I also love cooking and baking. Spending time in the kitchen creating delicious food and desserts, and sharing them with others, brings me immense joy. Additionally, I save money to travel and explore new cities and countries. There’s nothing more enjoyable to me than visiting and learning about different cultures and places."

Iga Wieczorek
Iga is a student at the University of Plymouth studying Biomedical Science, specialising in parasitology and antimicrobial resistance. Following an academic placement year at the University, Iga has recently published an article in The Microbe exploring novel antibiotics from the Roman Baths. 
With a passion for teaching and research, Iga plans to pursue a career as a lecturer in the future. Recognised with the Staff Choice Award, and already an accomplished keynote speaker, Iga will be sharing insights on student voice and peer learning drawing on their experience as a senior PALS leader, Writing Cafe mentor and pre-sessional ambassador.
 

Stands/posters on show

School of Society and Culture internships • Insights, inclusivity and impact: Spotlight on knowledge exchange in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business • Careers Service development of graduate skills and attributes, and digital innovation • Digital education • Discovery Weeks • Commuter student experience • Innovations in teaching and learning changes • Peer assisted learning • Articulating the impact of SHAPE graduates in their communities • Integrating apprenticeships into higher education – demystify the jargon and tips for successful delivery • Sustainable professional development through distance learning

Optional tours of innovative spaces

Babbage Building • Digital Fabrication Lab • Immersive Media Lab • Dynamic Positioning Simulator • Wave Tank • The House • LABplus • Dietetics • Consolidated Radio Isotope Facility (CORIF) • 5G Enabled Microscopy Labs • Immersive Vision Theatre • Phantom Heads • Crime Simulation Suite • Library Archives and Special Collections •
Sustainability Hub • InterCity Place • Skardon Gardens

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