Building Responsible AI Skills for Education

Published:26.10.26 — The Center for Digital Education (CEDE) has developed a series of workshops helping educators develop a critical and responsible approach to the use of generative AI in teaching and learning. Since June 2026, four sessions of each workshop have already taken place, bringing together over 100 participants.

“I took a fresh look at how I teach and saw how it's done here”

Published:20.10.26 — In a first for EPFL, a local high school biology teacher – Vincent Turner, from Bugnon high school in Lausanne – participated in an immersion program last spring organized by the High school–EPFL Interface team.

What are we educating ourselves to notice?

Published:01.10.26 — Why sustainability learning needs more than information, and why emotions are not a shortcut to action. An op-ed by Jié Gao, whose transdisciplinary research explores how to design learning spaces, combining role play, dialogue, and reflection, in which emotions and scientific reasoning work together rather than against each other when facing the complex challenges of sustainability.

Should an AI tutor teach how to prompt or how to reflect?

Published:01.10.26 — A conversation with Jérôme Brender, whose research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the learning sciences, focuses on how students engage with AI tools while learning to program, and what that engagement means for their learning in the long run.

“With AI, we need to reconsider what it means to learn”

Published:23.09.26 — Artificial intelligence is forcing universities to reinvent how they teach and assess students’ knowledge. According to Dan Schwartz, an expert in learning science at Stanford, the challenge goes well beyond deciding whether to let AI into the classroom – teachers need to think long and hard about what students should really learn.

Launch of CLUE, a new center dedicated to the science of learning

Published:16.09.26 — ETH Zurich and EPFL officially launched CLUE – the Joint Center for Research on Learning, Understanding, and Education, dedicated to the science of learning. The two-part event, held on 10 September in Bern, brought together researchers, institutional leaders, and partners from across the Swiss education landscape.

AI takes root in university curriculum

Published:14.09.26 — More than 12,000 students have returned to classes at EPFL. How has the advance of artificial intelligence transformed higher education?

Teaching Development Fund s'EPanouir–FLourish: Call for projects.

Published:11.09.26 — After a successful first edition funding and supporting 8 projects across the 5 schools, the second Teaching Development Fund s’EPanouir–FLourish call for projects is now open and accepting projects until October 30th, 2026.

A digital tool for teacher professional development

Published:30.06.26 — Teachers’ professional development should also be data-driven. A training evaluation tool developed at the Center LEARN offers a solution based on translational research.