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

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

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.

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?

Ongoing

iHub4Schools

Accelerating digital innovation in schools through Regional Innovation Hubs and a whole-school mentoring model.

Ongoing

lunch&LEARN

The aim of Lunch&LEARN sessions is to gather an EPFL audience interested in novel and effective learning and teaching approaches, and to create a rich discussion around successful paradigms based on evidence. Do join us!

Ongoing

PharmaSIM

Interactive Learning environments for pharmacy assistants can encourage the students to test their knowledge in consultation situations without the fear of making mistakes.

Additionally, these environments can be used to collect meaningful data to analyze student’s behaviors and provide exclusive insights to teachers.

Ongoing

Teaching in times of covid-19

The LEARN teams supported EPFL teachers and primary school educators in implementing and adapting distance and hybrid teaching in the unexpected and imposed context of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.

Ongoing

Jupyter Notebooks

Computational thinking in practice. We offer easy access to Jupyter Notebooks for students, and support instructors on the best designs and use in class.