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Co-constructing an Effective, Sustainable and Scalable Primary School Computer Science Curricular Reform

Over the past few decades, the debates have shifted from whether to how Computer Science (CS) should be introduced into formal education. Given the diverse ways to introduce CS into formal education, and the struggles many countries have faced, considerabl ...

EPFL2023

Facilitating Experiential Learning in Higher Education Teaching and Supervising in Labs, Fieldwork, Studios, and Projects

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac

This book provides evidence-informed and practical advice on how to design, teach, and facilitate hands-on, experiential learning in practical higher education settings. With rich case studies and carefully considered analysis tasks, all underpinned by res ...

Routledge2021

Teaching Transversal Skills in the Engineering Curriculum: the Need to Raise the Temperature

Roland John Tormey, Lucille Delisle, Helena Kovacs, Pascal Vuilliomenet, Mirjam Mekhaiel

Engineers and architects today are dealing with great social, technical and environmental complexities, and the demand for having broadly educated holistic engineers will only continue to grow in the future. Being able to manage and lead diverse teams, und ...

University of Twente2020

The Teaching Toolkit: design of a one-day pedagogical workshop for engineering graduate teaching assistants

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Cécile Hardebolle

Through their role in labs, exercise/recitation sessions and tutorials, graduate or doctoral teaching assistants play a significant role in the education of engineering students. Yet doctoral assistants frequently get little pedagogical training, what trai ...

2019

Training in Mapping Changes on an Archaeological Site

Pierre-Yves Gilliéron, Bertrand Merminod, Jérôme Zufferey

The evolution of technologies makes surveying accessible to a broader community of professionals and students. Therefore, teaching geomatics is a continuous challenge. This article presents an original pedagogical approach based on a teaching unit gatherin ...

2018

Towards the implementation of a safety education program in a teaching and research institution

Thierry Meyer

Education is a continuing process for improving the level of knowledge including the pro-cess of learning and acquiring information. It is widely believed that constant exposure tonew ideas and skills makes people better workers, thinkers, and societal con ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

Learning by Teaching a Robot: The Case of Handwriting

Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Alexis David Jacq, Fernando Garcia, Deanna Hood, Ana Paiva

Robots for education are not limited to support ICT teaching, and they are indeed finding new roles in the classroom. This article reports on such a new paradigm for educative robots, that involves learning by teaching and strong social engagement to help ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

El camino no es el camino. Some reflexions on the Valparaiso School and its architectural teaching

Patricia Guaita, Cornelia Dominique Tapparelli Portilla Kawamura

The teaching of architecture at the School of Architecture and Design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso (the Valparaiso School) has very often been described as ‘very unusual’. One of the most exceptional and most often remarked upon aspe ...

EPFL Press2015

Initiatives in crystallographic education

Gervais Chapuis

The rapid development of the Internet has created new opportunities for teaching in general and it is our aim to show how the current evolution can best be exploited for crystallography education in particular. Currently, we can find a very large selection ...

2011

Verso un'oggettività della bellezza. L'insegnamento dei Grigioni.

Stefano Zerbi, Luca Conti, Marco Svimbersky

Contemporary society is based on a perpetual evolution of personal opinions and likings. The transmission of knowledge is questioned, but if the education and teaching about a critical vision is considered an essential instrument, so the schools and the ma ...

2010

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