The CEDE is hiring student assistants to manually tag keywords in EPFL course descriptions
The Center for Digital Education (cede.epfl.ch) is hiring student assistants to manually tag keywords in EPFL course descriptions. In the context of the Campus Analytics project, we are trying to identify each individual scientific concept that is taught in each EPFL course—by manually tagging keywords in course descriptions and connecting them to relevant Wikipedia pages. (…)
The CEDE is looking for a Full Stack Developer (100%)
The Center for Digital Education (cede.epfl.ch)—located in the iconic Rolex Learning Center—is the European leader in MOOCs development and one of the main drivers of pedagogical innovation at EPFL. We are among the few universities in the world using Machine Learning and AI technology to support students and teachers in educational planning, as well as (…)
Official launch of the Learning Companion app
More than a thousand students are starting classes at EPFL for the first time today. Together with the excitement of the new academic year, they are feeling apprehension about starting university life and pressure to learn complex subjects at a fast pace. So to help students acquire effective learning habits, EPFL has created the Learning Companion (…)
DRIL: A new fund to help teachers innovate
The vice-presidency for education created the DRIL fund to support teachers in creating digital resources for education. Two calls for proposal are organised per year. Teachers can submit a project with the submission form. An editorial committee composed of representatives from schools evaluates the projects.The DRIL fund focuses its support on resources that are used in (…)
A new way of visualising the EPFL course catalog
Two EPFL students have developed a new method of navigating the course catalog in the form of a pre-requisites graph.The traditional way students browse for courses at EPFL is through a list of course titles and descriptions. This format is enough to understand what each course covers in terms of subjects, but does a very (…)
A graph-based snapshot of the Swiss job market
If an EPFL student wanted to know which skills are in high demand in the Swiss job market, where would they go? Matteo Giorla, a student working at the CEDE for his semester project, has developed an interactive web app that shows a snapshot of the Swiss job market in early 2017.The data was collected from (…)
An artful view of MOOCs forum exchanges across the world
Emma Lejal-Glaude, a student working at the CEDE for her semester project, developed a smooth visualisation of student interactions in EPFL MOOC forums. We can see the average pattern of interactions over a 24h period in the entire world (in both French and English language), as well as inwards and outwards of Lausanne. The visualisation nicely (…)
The Campus Analytics project has been launched
The EPFL administration will now be able to collaborate with EPFL’s research labs to perform advanced analytics on its own institutional data. Our research labs are among the best in the world in areas such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and network science, and their knowhow can help EPFL policy makers better understand how the (…)
The world watching MOOC videos over a 24h period
The giant interactive monolith in the Datasquare center at the EPFL ArtLab building now has a cool visualisation of students watching EPFL MOOC videos across the world over a 24h period.The Datasquare center is a welcome area where campus visitors can learn about the main research projects under way at EPFL, particularly projects in the domains of (…)