Initiatives

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.

Finished

Digital education: the “EduNum” reform project

La transition numérique à l'école et au gymnase: afin d’accompagner la transition numérique de la société, le canton de Vaud a priorisé un programme d’éducation numérique étendu à l’ensemble du système de formation dans son programme de législature 2017-2022.

Ongoing

Computational thinking assessment

The goal of this initiative is to build a test to gauge computational thinking skills in a valid and reliable fashion. We are building, testing and validating a test that can be taken by anyone regardless of their previous knowledge or expertise in computer science.

Ongoing

Flipped classroom

The term “flipped classroom” refers to a teaching approach in which students get a first exposure to course content before class, through readings or videos, then spend class time deepening their understanding of that content through learning activities with the teacher and/or teaching team (e.g. interactive quizzes, experiments, demonstrations, group problem solving assignments, etc.).

Ongoing

Advice to teachers and sections

Partnerships between teaching advisors and faculty members are more likely to provide adequate and timely support to the teaching staff. The resources to advise teachers are blended, as they combine face-to-face meetings with relevant videos and documents.

Finished

Uni Analytics: learning analytics

We believe that machines can help humans teach and learn better. That is why we combine artificial intelligence and machine learning with insights from the learning sciences to better understand what people know and how they learn.