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Teacher-Mediated and Student-Led Interaction with a Physics Simulation: Effects on the Learning Experience
Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah
Computer simulations are often used as support material for science education, as they can engage students through inquiry-based learning, promote their active interaction in the experimentation phase, and help them visualize abstract concepts. For instanc ...
2024A Biohybrid Superorganism - Investigating honeybees' collective behaviors via interactive robotics
Social insects, such as ants, termites, and honeybees, have evolved sophisticated societies where the collaborative efforts of "simple" individuals can lead to the emergence of complex dynamics. The reliance of each organism on the collective is so great t ...
EPFL2024How to support students to develop coaching and peer teaching skills
Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima
Students learn more when they are actively engaged in the learning process. While hands-on activities, labs and projects are moments when students are active, the learning benefits can be amplified with coaching strategies. This activity will enable studen ...
EPFL2024Enhancing Procedural Writing Through Personalized Example Retrieval: A Case Study on Cooking Recipes
Antoine Bosselut, Jibril Albachir Frej, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Luca Mouchel, Tatjana Nazaretsky, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Thiemo Wambsganss
Writing high-quality procedural texts is a challenging task for many learners. While example-based learning has shown promise as a feedback approach, a limitation arises when all learners receive the same content without considering their individual input ...
2024Generative AI-Enabled Conversational Interaction to Support Self-Directed Learning Experiences in Transversal Computational Thinking
Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Adrian Christian Holzer, Abdessalam Ouaazki
As computational thinking (CT) becomes increasingly acknowledged as an important skill in education, self-directed learning (SDL) emerges as a key strategy for developing this capability. The advent of generative AI (GenAI) conversational agents has disrup ...
2024GELEX: Generative AI-Hybrid System for Example-Based Learning
Jibril Albachir Frej, Aybars Yazici
Traditional example-based learning methods are often limited by static, expert-created content. Hence, they face challenges in scalability, engagement, and effectiveness, as some learners might struggle to relate to the examples or find them relevant. To a ...
Association for Computing Machinery2024“But of course i’m going to look happy” or “He needed to know I was angry”? Comparing use of emotional labour in teamwork in engineering and hospitality students
Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk
Being able to work effectively in a team is a vital professional skill but how do students in different disciplines, engineering and hospitality, display their emotions when working together? We investigated their self-reported use of emotional labour stra ...
EAPRIL - European Association for Practitioner Research on Improving Learning2024Hitting with Different Joints of a Robotic Manipulator
This paper builds up the skill of impact aware non prehensile manipulation through a hitting motion by allowing the robot arm to come in contact with the environment with parts other than its end effector. Hitting with other joints allows us to manipulate ...
2024How to Support Students to Cultivate Psychological Safety in their Teams
Francesco Mondada, Yousef Jalali
The importance of psychological safety in teams has been demonstrated in different settings. Team performance improves when team climate allows team members to be their authentic selves, to ask questions and raise concerns comfortably. However, it is less ...
EPFL2024A Bebras Computational Thinking (ABC-Thinking) program for primary school: Evaluation using the competent computational thinking test
Bebras tasks are considered to develop Computational Thinking (CT) and are currently used for this purpose in many studies. However, the relationship between Bebras tasks and CT is recent and, given the scarcity of validated instruments for assessing CT th ...
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