Center for Digital Education
Our mission
The mission of the Center for Digital Education is to explore and exploit the advances in digital technologies for education. Digital technologies encompass content (e.g. online courses, jupyter notebooks, video lectures), tools (e.g. simulations, automatic graders), and data about education at all scales of the education system. The Center for Digital Education supports all stakeholders of EPFL’s education mission: Teachers are our main clients with regards to the production of content and the integration of tools in education. Students are the end-users of the tools and material. We involve Researchers in the analysis of the educational datasets that we are curating.
Educational Technologies at EPFL
Providing Feedback
Discover how EPFL fosters a culture of constructive feedback to enhance teaching and learning. This initiative offers practical tools and strategies for students and educators to give and receive meaningful feedback, promoting continuous improvement and academic excellence.
Teaching interactively
EPFL offers a range of digital tools designed to support teaching and enhance the student experience. From interactive computing environments like Jupyter Notebooks to real-time response systems that promote active participation in class, these platforms help make learning more dynamic, accessible, and engaging.
Open and accessible education
At EPFL, we promote open, inclusive, and ethical education through initiatives that enhance teaching and learning. The Open Education Initiative supports free access to publicly funded resources and helps educators design more accessible, interactive courses. We also guide instructors on using licenses like Creative Commons, and offer tools to integrate ethics into digital education. Platforms like Exoset provide adaptable exercise collections to support diverse teaching needs.
Campus Analytics
EPFL Graphsearch, the cutting-edge semantic search for EPFL’s academic contents. Campus Analytics is an initiative of the Center for Digital Education (CEDE) of Dr. Patrick Jermann and the Computer-Human Interaction in Learning and Instruction Lab (CHILI) of Prof. Pierre Dillenbourg, created with the goal of bringing together scientific and institutional research at EPFL.
Innovation and supporting education at EPFL
Education is evolving to meet the demands of a digital world, with a focus on flexible teaching, innovative tools, and preparing students for the future. Support and funding initiatives help educators create engaging, high-quality digital learning experiences that blend online and in-person methods.
Production of Educational Material
EPFL supports the creation of high-quality educational content through MOOCs, professional video production, and enriched course materials. Since 2012, over 150 MOOCs have been produced, reaching more than 3 million learners worldwide. Our video studios and expert staff assist instructors in creating full courses or enhancing classroom content. We also transform videos into structured course materials—digital or print-ready—to support effective learning and easy review.
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