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Planned, taught, learnt: analysis of transversal skills through curriculum using portfolio
Helena Kovacs, Alexandra Corina Niculescu, Tamara Milosevic
There is an everlasting effort in education to successfully ensure that the intended learning objectives are clearly taught and effectively learnt at the end of the educational cycle. This has been especially difficult in teaching and learning complex sets ...
TU Dublin2023Are engineering teachers ready to leverage the power of play to teach transversal skills?
Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Yousef Jalali, Natascia Petringa
What conceptions do teachers hold about learning activities to develop students’ transversal skills? This qualitative exploration at a research-intensive engineering school draws on interviews and focus groups to explore teachers’ ideas about developing in ...
2023A Research-Practice Partnership to Introduce Computer Science in Secondary School: Lessons from a Pilot Program
Francesco Mondada, Helena Kovacs, Jean-Philippe Pellet, Barbara Bruno, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy
Context: Introducing Computer Science (CS) into formal education can be challenging, notably when considering the numerous stakeholders involved which include the students, teachers, schools, and policy makers. We believe these perspectives should be con ...
2023The Domestic Turn: Politics of Education from New College to The Palazzo Della Sapienza
Student accommodation became a problem only a century after the foundation of the first universities in Europe in the 12th century. At the very beginning students had to provide their own lodgings autonomously. In many university cities the situation prove ...
2023Design and evaluation of digital tools to expand experience in vocational education
Vocational education and training (VET) is the most popular form of upper-secondary education in Switzerland, with more than two-thirds of the teenagers enrolling in a VET program after finishing their compulsory education. The vast majority of the Swiss V ...
EPFL2022Educational Technologies for Vocational Education. Experiences as Digital Clay
Pierre Dillenbourg, Richard Lee Davis
This book summarises 15 years of research (2007-2021) on the exploitation of digital technologies for VET. In other words, our activities started the same year as the first iPhone was launched! Four research groups formed the leading house on the topic, na ...
EPFL2022Evolutionary Clustering of Apprentices' Self- Regulated Learning Behavior in Learning Journals
Paola Mejia Domenzain, Christian Giang, Mirko Marras
Learning journals are increasingly used in vocational education to foster self-regulated learning and reflective learning practices. However, for many apprentices, documenting working experiences is a difficult task. In this paper, we profile apprentices' ...
2022How to support teachers to carry out educational robotics activities in school? The case of Roteco, the Swiss robotic teacher community
The development of 21st-century transversal competences such as communication, cooperation, and creativity as well as computational thinking and programming may be aided through educational robotics (ER). Different countries have inserted ER in their schoo ...
2022How Florist Apprentices Explore Bouquet Designs: Supporting Design Space Exploration for Vocational Students
Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach
Context: Exploring the design space is an important process in a design task. In this study, we considered design space exploration for the learners in vocational education and training (VET). The goal of the study was to investigate how they explore the d ...
2021Automated Design: A Journey Across Modelling, Optimization, and Education
Machine intelligence greatly impacts almost all domains of our societies. It is profoundly changing the field of mechanical engineering with new technical possibilities and processes. The education of future engineers also needs to adapt in terms of techni ...
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