Join SEFI and share your experience in engineering education.
We invite you to join the community of engineering educators and learning scientists. You can share your experiences in SEFI Special Interest groups, present your work in a practice or research paper, or organise a workshop. The SEFI team is organising drop-in sessions during lunch to help you brainstorm ideas on how you can participate. See upcoming dates below.
For more information come to one of our online drop-in sessions from 12:00 to 13:00 hours.
Events Registration : Free
Experiential Workshop on HOW to teach transversal skills
We all know that we need to embed transversal skill development in our courses – this workshop takes a micro approach looking at how to do this for one skill during one class session. Starting with an experiential activity, we review the types of thinking that enable students to build up their skills « toolbox » and to transfer their skills across projects and contexts. **Participants will design, develop or adapt an activity to teach transversal skills for their own teaching, employing our trident model.
This workshop is part of the 3T PLAY project that investigates the use of tangibles for teaching transversal skills to engineering students.
https://learn.epfl.ch/fr/wwd_learn/3tplay-les-objets-tangibles-pour-developper-les-competences-transversales-dans-les-universites/
This workshop is part of the 3T PLAY project that investigates the use of tangibles for teaching transversal skills to engineering students.
https://learn.epfl.ch/fr/wwd_learn/3tplay-les-objets-tangibles-pour-developper-les-competences-transversales-dans-les-universites/
Using generative AI in teaching to support students’ learning ? Discussion of experiences with Gerd Kortemeyer
Teachers at EPFL are integrating generative AI in their teaching in various applications and use cases. Among such evolving practices could be the use of text producing LLM-based technology like ChatGPT for the creation of feedback to students or the use of generative AI by students to solve an engineering problem design task.
In this session, we will first hear from some teachers about their experiences (if you want to share yours, please be in touch with the organiser), and we will then engage in a group discussion.
Gerd Kortemeyer is a member of the Rectorate and AI Center of ETH Zurich, as such, he spearheads initiatives to integrate Artificial Intelligence into Higher Education.
Teachers & Transversal skills coffee hour with Simone Deparis
Join us and find out HOW to teach transversal skills in your course! This informal session is an opportunity to discuss with Simone Deparis about flipped classrooms, hear about what your colleagues are doing and share your own strategies.
Teachers & Transversal skills coffee hour with Michka Mélo
Join us and find out HOW to teach transversal skills in your course! Hear about what your colleagues are doing and share your own strategies.
SEFI Information Session: a Zoom drop-in event
SEFI – the European Society for Engineering Education – is the largest network focused on engineering education in Europe. SEFI also has Special Interest Groups that focus on disciplinary areas such as Physics and Mathematics education.
Their annual conference SEFI 2024 is happening at EPFL in September 2024!
SEFI is a conference for engineering education research and practice. This is a great opportunity for you to share your educational practices and to learn from other engineering teachers from universities all over the word.
If you are a teacher at EPFL, or a post-doc/doctoral student involved in teaching, come to one of our SEFI information drop-in sessions to learn more about SEFI and how being a part of SEFI can benefit you.
We can help identify ideas for papers submissions.
Join us online on zoom: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/7266672602
SEFI Information Session: a Zoom drop-in event
SEFI – the European Society for Engineering Education – is the largest network focused on engineering education in Europe. SEFI also has Special Interest Groups that focus on disciplinary areas such as Physics and Mathematics education.
Their annual conference SEFI 2024 is happening at EPFL in September 2024!
SEFI is a conference for engineering education research and practice. This is a great opportunity for you to share your educational practices and to learn from other engineering teachers from universities all over the word.
If you are a teacher at EPFL, or a post-doc/doctoral student involved in teaching, come to one of our SEFI information drop-in sessions to learn more about SEFI and how being a part of SEFI can benefit you.
We can help identify ideas for papers submissions.
Join us online on zoom: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/7266672602
SEFI Information Session: a Zoom drop-in event
SEFI – the European Society for Engineering Education – is the largest network focused on engineering education in Europe. SEFI also has Special Interest Groups that focus on disciplinary areas such as Physics and Mathematics education.
Their annual conference SEFI 2024 is happening at EPFL in September 2024!
SEFI is a conference for engineering education research and practice. This is a great opportunity for you to share your educational practices and to learn from other engineering teachers from universities all over the word.
If you are a teacher at EPFL, or a post-doc/doctoral student involved in teaching, come to one of our SEFI information drop-in sessions to learn more about SEFI and how being a part of SEFI can benefit you.
We can help identify ideas for papers submissions.
Join us online on zoom: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/7266672602
Design features that facilitate meaningful learning experiences
Abstract: Meaningful learning requires a balance between agency and support. Achieving this balance is challenging, as the more control the system takes, the less control learners have over their own learning. An alternative approach is one in which support facilitates agency instead of reducing it. In this talk, Prof. Roll will describe how technology that focuses on effective learning processes rather than the correctness of outcomes can support the development of higher-order competencies together with better learning at the domain level. Common to these examples is the use of Learning Analytics techniques to capture patterns associated with competencies such as effective learning from errors, scientific reasoning, and creative thinking. Taken together, these results challenge common views of effective support and the role of technology in learning.
Randomized experiments to evaluate learning technologies
In this lunch&LEARN session Maria Paula Cacault, Head of Operations E4S (Enterprise 4 Society), will present the findings from her study exploring the effects of live streaming lectures on student achievement and attendance. After the presentation we will explore how randomised experiments can be set up to evaluate new learning methods.
Results from this large-scale randomized experiment with first-year bachelor students at the University of Geneva revealed that watching lectures via live stream lowered the academic performance of students with lower abilities and improved the results for those with higher-abilities. Interestingly, students seemed to use this technology only sporadically, often choosing online attendance when unexpected circumstances made attending class in person difficult.
This study won the « Swiss Education Research Award 2023”. This prize is awarded biennially by the Swiss Confederation and cantonal authorities to recognise research that significantly contributes to the management and steering of the education system.
Interdisciplinary collaborations in the Learning Sciences: Research on instruction with visualizations
Join us for an insightful talk by Prof. Dr. Martina Rau, Full Professor of Research on Learning and Instruction at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich.
Visual representations play an important role in MINT learning. They are intuitive and thought to facilitate learning. However, students often misinterpret visualizations, and – in part because they seem so intuitive – both students and instructors remain unaware of these difficulties.
Professor Martina Rau’s research takes an interdisciplinary approach to addressing this issue. Trained in educational psychology and human-computer interaction, she combines controlled experiments with user-centered studies to investigate how instruction can use visualizations productively.
In doing so, she has been collaborating with professors and instructors in domains such as chemistry and engineering to align her interventions with disciplinary practices.
Further, in collaboration with computer scientists, her projects have used machine-learning methods to improve instructional interventions beyond what a human teacher could achieve.
Besides presenting effective ways of using visualizations in instruction, Professor Martina Rau will reflect on the merits of interdisciplinary research collaborations.
Teachers and Transversal Skills – Coffee Hour
This informal session is an opportunity to discuss HOW to teach transversal skills in your course – choosing relevant skills, strategies for integrating skills, and for providing feedback to students. The session will start with a 10′ presentation from an EPFL teacher followed by discussion.
Join us to hear about what your colleagues are doing with their students,share your own strategies, and learn about resources to better integrate these essential skills in various disciplinary contexts.
Co-hosted by the 3T PLAY project and the Transversal Skills and Career Centre (CCTC). Cake and beverages provided.
Join us to hear about what your colleagues are doing with their students,share your own strategies, and learn about resources to better integrate these essential skills in various disciplinary contexts.
Co-hosted by the 3T PLAY project and the Transversal Skills and Career Centre (CCTC). Cake and beverages provided.