Dynamico aide à detecter les difficultés d’écriture
Le projet Dynamico du CHILI Lab dans Le Temps Une tablette au secours des élèves qui peinent à écrire
Pedagogical innovation through performing arts and improvisation methods
EPFL hosts first conference on performance art in higher education On June 13th and 14th, EPFL and the University of Neuchatel (UNINE) organized the first Symposium on Higher Education Learning through Performance Practices on the EPFL campus. The event offered an opportunity for exchange on applying performing arts and improvisation methods to higher education, with (…)
LEARN Award finalists presented during EPFLs education day
02.10.18 – La vitesse et l’impact de la transformation numérique impliquent des défis colossaux qui ne peuvent être résolus que par des pratiques pédagogiques appropriées visant à préparer les futurs citoyens à embrasser les perspectives de la société numérique. Pour contribuer à ces évolutions imminentes, l’EPFL inaugure un « Center for learning sciences ». LEARN. (…)
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 (…)
L’EPFL inaugure LEARN, le « Center for learning sciences »
02.10.18 – La vitesse et l’impact de la transformation numérique impliquent des défis colossaux qui ne peuvent être résolus que par des pratiques pédagogiques appropriées visant à préparer les futurs citoyens à embrasser les perspectives de la société numérique. Pour contribuer à ces évolutions imminentes, l’EPFL inaugure un « Center for learning sciences ». LEARN. (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)