What we do

Collision Hours

Collision Hours are meant to bring together different EdTech startups to have the opportunity to meet with other, like-minded startups to exchange and share expertise, best practices, connections and …

Interactive teaching

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 …

Digital skills

Teaching in times of covid-19

The teams in LEARN provided support for teachers at different levels in their efforts to setup and constantly adapt their distance and blended teaching. LEARN teams worked with teachers to face the …

Blended learning, Digital skills, Open educational resources

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 …

Open educational resources, Self-regulated learning

Interface With Schools

Through various internal and external collaborations, the Interface with schools and institutions, and more specifically the Interface Gymnase-EPFL managed by the Education Outreach Department (SPE), …

Computational thinking, Curriculum design, Digital skills, Experiential learning, STEM, Transversal skills

Workshops for Teachers and Doctoral Assistants

Our online and on campus workshops address the typical range of university teaching activities.

Collaborative learning, Curriculum design, Inquiry learning, Interactive teaching, Self-regulated learning

Campus Analytics

Data science for education. We aim at using the power of machine learning and data science to uncover hidden patterns and paths in EPFL’s educational system.

Curriculum design, Learning analytics

ASPIRE

Graasp for open evidence-based research in digital education.

Blended learning, Learning analytics, Open educational resources

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 …

Interactive teaching

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, …

Computational thinking, Educational robotics, Experiential learning, Open educational resources, STEM

Digital Education (EduNum)

Flagship project of the Center LEARN, its main objective is to train students to master the three pillars of digital education (computer science, uses and media).

Digital citizenship, Digital skills

Roteco: Robotic Teacher Community

The goal of the Roteco project is to create a vibrant community of schoolteachers interested in the field of robotics and computational thinking. Sharing classroom practices around educational …

Educational robotics, Open educational resources

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