Initiatives
Title
37 Initiatives
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.
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.
Ongoing
Swiss Digital Skills Academy
Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Open Educational Platforms (OEPs) are playing a key role in strengthening digitalization in higher education. Up to now, their development and deployment have been mainly carried out by IT services and media experts.
The creation of a Swiss Digital Skills Academy is enabling and empowering professors and educators in higher education institutions, as well as HEP/PH students to take control of and to fully adopt their digital ecosystem in their educational practices.
The creation of a Swiss Digital Skills Academy is enabling and empowering professors and educators in higher education institutions, as well as HEP/PH students to take control of and to fully adopt their digital ecosystem in their educational practices.
Ongoing
Digital Education for Equity in Primary Schools (DEEP)
The DEEP (Digital Education for Equity in Primary Schools) consortium, supported by the Jacobs Foundation, investigates the foundations, challenges, and consequences of introducing digital learning in Swiss primary schools. The aim is to contribute to an equitable and sustainable digital transformation in Swiss primary education. DEEP is a collaboration of seven higher education institutions that reflect the institutional, disciplinary, methodological, and geographical diversity of Swiss educational research.
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.
Finished
3T PLAY Tangible objects for developing Transversal skills at Technical universities
The 3T PLAY project develops playful activities with tangible objects to teach transversal skills to engineering students. Embedded in a premier engineering school, we take a research-based approach to identifying skills that are under-addressed in the higher education literature and skills of emerging importance for today’s environmental, social and economic challenges. The trident framework and activity guides have been iteratively developed through empirical observations and implementation, creating open-source resources for the engineering education and research communities.
Ongoing
AI in education
The Center LEARN develops approaches and training programs to familiarize teachers with AI-based tools and methods.
Ongoing
Socio-Emotional and Ethical Blended Learning
The purpose of this project is to understand, support, and promote the development of psychosocial and ethical skills crucial for reshaping the 21st-century educational environment.
Ongoing
Learning Companion
The Learning Companion is the result of a collaboration between the Center for Digital Education (CEDE) and the Teaching Support Center (CAPE) at EPFL, both members of the Center LEARN.
The Learning Companion allows students to self-assess on three levels. It invites them to reflect on their learning habits, problem-solving strategies, and their project management skills.
The Learning Companion allows students to self-assess on three levels. It invites them to reflect on their learning habits, problem-solving strategies, and their project management skills.
Ongoing
Swiss National EdTech Testbed Program
The Swiss National EdTech Testbed Program is an initiative designed to support the digital transformation in education with appropriate technological solutions.
Ongoing
Ethical skills for the digital world
While engineers have always had to consider ethical concerns when designing and developing technology, the rapidly changing digital landscape and the exponential evolution of AI raise new questions and pose a new set of challenges.
Ongoing
ASPIRE
ASPIRE is empowering researchers, beyond the current platform stakeholders, to access data generated within Graasp.
Ongoing
Mapping transversal 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
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.
