What we do

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

Curriculum design, Self-regulated learning

ASPIRE

Graasp for open evidence-based research in digital education.

Blended learning, Learning analytics, Open educational resources

lunch&LEARN

The aim of Lunch&LEARN sessions is to gather an EPFL audience interested in novel and effective learning and teaching approaches, and to create a rich discussion around successful paradigms based …

Interactive teaching

Research on Education in Times of Covid-19

The two main questions our research teams dealt with concerning covid-19 and education were: How does distance teaching during lockdown affect students and teachers? How can we collect the evidence …

Blended learning

Learning Analytics (Uni 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 …

Learning analytics

International Outreach

International outreach is part of EPFL’s DNA in many aspects such as its diverse community or its internationally recognized research. The Education Outreach Department (SPE) is committed to …

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

Jupyter Notebooks

Computational thinking in practice. We offer easy access to Jupyter Notebooks for students, and support instructors on the best designs and use in class.

Computational thinking, Experiential learning

The filtered initiatives