List of supported projects for 2024-25

AI in Teaching and Learning at Oxford: Knowledge Exchange Forum

Join us on Wednesday 9 July at Saïd Business School as members of the project teams being supported this year share their insights, experiences, and key findings.

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We are pleased to announce that the 12 projects listed below will receive support through the AI Teaching and Learning Exploratory Fund in 2024-25.

Support is provided in the form of expertise and technical resources from specialists at the AI and Machine Learning Competency Centre, and expertise in educational projects from the Centre for Teaching and Learning, and projects will be completed by the end of this academic year.

Outputs from each project will be shared with the collegiate University to inform AI exploration and integration in teaching and learning or academic administration. 

Supported projects

Project name Division/s Project members (lead/s in bold)

Summary 

Writing and translation feedback tool Humanities

Claudia Kaiser, Cornelia Wiedenhofer, Nadine Buchmann

 

Developing and testing an AI-driven feedback tool to provide real-time, corrective, and contextualised feedback for student translations, enhancing active learning and self-reflection, with the potential for expansion to multiple languages after initial testing with English-German translations. 

Brainard the Fox Humanities

Juliana Dresvina, Daniel Gerrard, Leif Dixon, Gavin Thomas

 

Developing an AI-powered research companion for undergraduate History students to help navigate pre-modern period papers by guiding them to relevant resources from Oxford's vast archives, with a focus on enhancing reading lists and supporting critical engagement without enabling essay writing. 

Support for neurodiverse Humanities students Humanities

Simon Park, Machilu van Bever Donker, Phillip Rothwell, Siân Grønlie

 

Exploring how AI tools can enhance support for disabled and neurodiverse Humanities students by quickly generating diverse, accessible learning materials beyond lecture recordings, addressing inclusivity and reducing staff workload. 

Compsci course guide bot MPLS

Jennifer Watson, Edward Crichton, Lucy Sajdler

Using AI to create a course guide that helps Computer Science students with personalised course selection and faculty expertise, improving academic planning and resource utilisation. 

Paper to podcast project MSD

Stephen Taylor, Delia O’Rourke, Damion Young, Ruth Percy

Introducing an AI-driven solution that transforms academic papers into engaging conversational podcasts, improving accessibility, engagement, and time-efficient knowledge acquisition. 

AI-assisted annotations for Histology practicals MSD

Sharmila Saran Rajendran, Helen Christian, Mary McMenami, Damion Young, Rumyana Smilevska 

The Labbot project aims to enhance inclusive learning and student engagement in medical histology lab practicals by using an AI-driven chatbot to support first-year preclinical students in addressing queries and interacting with instructors. 

Simulated patient chatbot for medical students to practice communication and reasoning MSD

Sofia I R PereiraPhilip Drennan, Damion Young, Sumathi Sekaran, Suzanne Stewart, Jack Amiry, Anna B Szabo, Dimitri Gavriloff, Vedas Thakrar, Ali Hosin, James Fullerton

An LLM-based chatbot will simulate patient interactions in an OSCE-like format, creating a low-pressure environment where medical students can practice communication, clinical reasoning, taking medication histories, and counselling patients, while receiving AI-driven feedback to enhance their clinical pharmacology skills and confidence in prescribing medications.

AI-driven feedback loops MSD

Judy Irving, Daniel Long, Kate Forrester, Matthew Hurst  

Using AI-driven feedback loops to streamline the collection, analysis, and response to student feedback, enhancing teaching and learning while reducing the time and resources required for academic and administrative processes. 

Astrophoria personalised support MPLS

Christopher Patrick, Rachel Quarrell, Nicole Miranda

Using AI to help Astrophoria Foundation Year physical sciences students create personalized learning materials and integrate AI-based tasks into their studies to boost confidence and understanding. 

Voice chatbot for language learning OUDCE/Humanities

Marion Sadoux, Cornelia Wiedenhofer, Jieun Kiaer, Emine Cakir, Elizabeth Wonnacott

Developing an AI-powered voice chatbot integrated into Canvas to help L2 learners practice spoken interaction in various languages, reducing anxiety and fostering inclusivity 

Interdisciplinary collaboration matching Social Sciences

Jeremy Knox, Rebecca Eynon, Lulu Shi

Developing and evaluate an AI system to support interdisciplinary discussions among postgraduate students by analysing their essays and generating prompts to foster productive dialogue and collaboration across diverse disciplines. 

Reproducibility of research MSD

Lucy Bowes, Nicholas Yeung, Laurence Hunt, Juuso Repo 

Enhancing teaching and learning by using AI to help students critically assess the reproducibility of research studies through a collaborative process that combines AI-driven analysis, student verification, and reporting, fostering reflection on the interaction between human judgment and AI outputs.