Initiatives

Ongoing

AI4ED Actions at EPFL

At LEARN, we see GenAI not just as a way to ease daily teaching tasks, but as a powerful opportunity for real pedagogical innovation. Turning this potential into reality requires collaboration across our associated centers and labs.

Ongoing

Living catalogue on emerging AI Practices in Education

The living catalogue is a practical guide to research-based emerging AI practices in education, curated and regularly updated by the Center for Learning Sciences at EPFL.

Ongoing

Generative AI on Campus: What we learned (students & teachers survey 2024)

Understanding the adoption and uses of AI by students and teachers.

Ongoing

EuroTeQ

The EuroTeQ Engineering University project is a European initiative bringing together several partner institutions with the aim of building a modern and innovative learning ecosystem that transcends borders.

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.

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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

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

MOOC: discovering digital sciences with Thymio

This course covers the basic mechanisms of an educational robot such as Thymio, its programming using different languages, and its use in the classroom with associated pedagogical elements.

Ongoing

National Research Programme (NRP77): Assessing computational thinking skills

Computational thinking (CT) is the ability to develop a problem-solving methodology that complements computers. This project studies the extent to which Swiss students are able to do so, and develops tools to measure these skills.

Ongoing

Research on Education in Times of Covid-19

How does distance teaching during lockdown affect students and teachers? How can we collect the evidence in order to inform decision-makers?