Bringing Data Management MOOCs to a Wider Audience

Published:12.12.25 — CEDE Highlights OpenLearnity’s Role in Bringing Data Management MOOCs to a Wider Audience.

Vinitra Swamy awarded 2025 Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize

Published:12.12.25 — Vinitra Swamy, the first graduate of the Machine Learning for Education Laboratory (ML4ED), has been awarded the Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize for 2025. This award is given each year to a doctoral student in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences for the best thesis.

Launch of the s'EPanouir-FLourish initiative

Published:10.12.25 — The s’EPanouir–Flourish initiative was launched to further develop teaching at EPFL in close collaboration with the community. This first event brought together teaching staff and students to reflect on the future directions of the Bachelor programs.

When artificial intelligence is used for educational purposes

Published:09.12.25 — The Center for Digital Education rethinks quiz creation for MOOCs

OpenLearnity, high-quality online courses made accessible

Published:05.12.25 — The platform run by the Swiss MOOC Service association—founded by EPFL and EPFZ—has adopted a new name and broadened its ambitions. It now offers more than 150 courses from leading academic institutions, most of them free, aimed at both specialists and the general public.

Course Materials Are Migrating to Exoset

Published:31.10.25 — We’re pleased to announce that our course materials are being migrated to Exoset, EPFL’s growing platform for exercises, notebooks, and course resources in mathematics and physics.

Internal research mission: innovative assessments and learning

Published:08.10.25 — Researcher within the internal mission of the Center LEARN, Alexandra Niculescu provides an overview of the design, development, and evaluation of innovative pedagogical approaches deployed since 2021 and focused on the first year of study at EPFL.

A new generation of researchers is shaping the future of education

Published:08.10.25 — Four years after its launch, the members of the first cohort of the joint doctoral program in the learning sciences (JDPLS) offered by EPFL and ETH Zurich are about to put the finishing touches to their dissertations and in the coming months, they will receive a unique diploma bearing the logos of both institutions.

“Discussing a problem is the first step towards finding a solution”

Published:08.10.25 — Jürgen Brugger, a professor of microengineering, is the winner of this year’s EPFL Award for Best Teaching. His approach shows students that discussion and group work can be highly effective for learning new skills.