Initiatives

Ongoing

Supportive Learning Environments in the 1st year at EPFL

Study success and study progress are topics of great interest in STEM education research and this is especially the case in the pivotal first year.

Finished

Promoting diversity with online forums

Today online discussion forums are one of the most powerful tools for learning. At EPFL, their use has been encouraged for the past twenty years.

Ongoing

Professional skills

Professional (transversal) skills are career competences that are not specific to a particular job, task, discipline or are of knowledge. They are skills that can be used in variety of work settings, and as such are necessary for engineering graduates’ successful transition into future jobs.

Ongoing

Transversal Skills and Portfolios

Helping engineering students develop essential professional skills through portfolio-based learning.

Ongoing

Making learning explicit

Using a portfolio approach for integrating transversal skills into the engineering curriculum.

Ongoing

Utop’IA: a graphic novel to understand the impact of AI

An educational tool for understanding AI through the lens of sustainability.

Ongoing

Lighthouse EdTech: Evidence-oriented initiative

The Lighthouse initiative aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the field of educational technology. By bringing together Swiss EdTech startups, schools, and academic institutions, it allows for the testing, validation, and improvement of EdTech tools through research-based pilot studies. This collaborative approach enables schools to access innovative educational solutions, while startups receive valuable feedback to refine their tools, all within a rigorous, evidence-oriented framework.

Ongoing

BeLEARN

In order to strengthen and extend EPFL’s contribution to the digital transformation of education, the Center LEARN has joined the partnership between the Canton of Bern’s Department of Education and Culture and five universities to form BeLEARN: a competence center whose objective is to advance digital education through a translational approach.

Ongoing

VirtualLabs

Interactive simulations allowing students to conduct experiments online and explore concepts safely.

Ongoing

Swiss MOOC Service

100% hosted in Switzerland, the Swiss MOOC Service was built to serve public institutions and allow easy distribution of MOOCs.

Ongoing

Interface With Schools

Bring together national and international partners around the missions of EPFL, support our current and future Bachelor, Master, and PhD students in their choices and ambitions, ensure good visibility of the programs offered by the School, and act proactively to ensure a smooth transition from secondary education to EPFL.

Ongoing

R2T2: Collaborative Telerobotics Missions

Join a unique experience where up to 80 students from around the world collaborate remotely to control 16 Thymio robots. Together, they have three hours to coordinate their efforts and repair a damaged power plant on Mars!

Ongoing

Campus Analytics

Data science for education. We aim at using the power of machine learning and data science to uncover hidden patterns and paths in EPFL’s educational system.

Ongoing

MOOC Factory

In the span of a single decade, EPFL has produced more than 140 courses that have attracted 3’000’000 registrations. We now look at leveraging video resources produced in 2020.

Ongoing

Cellulo

Cellulo robots make abstract aspects of learning concrete, and act as intermediaries, facilitating and enriching educational activities.

Ongoing

Workshops for teachers and Doctoral Assistants

Our online and on campus workshops address the typical range of university teaching activities.