Initiatives
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7 Initiatives
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
roteco: robotics teacher community
roteco is a community of practice for teachers interested in integrating educational robotics into their classrooms.
Ongoing
Thymio: the state-of-the-art in mobile educational robotics
Thymio is an open-source educational robot designed by researchers from EPFL, in collaboration with ECAL, and produced by Mobsya, a nonprofit association whose mission is to offer comprehensive, engaging STEAM journeys to learners of all ages.
Ongoing
e-puck: the ultimate tool to teach embedded robotics
After more than 15 years and multiple generations, the Swiss-designed e-puck is still used worldwide by more than 4’000 universities and research centers. This modular mobile robot is a key tool to teach mobile robotics.
