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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 Dublin2023

A Research-Practice Partnership to Introduce Computer Science in Secondary School: Lessons from a Pilot Program

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Helena Kovacs, Jean-Philippe Pellet

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 ...

2023

Challenges and Opportunities in Integrating Interactive Chatbots into Code Review Exercises: A Pilot Case Study

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Juan Carlos Farah

While chatbots are commonly used to support software developers with repetitive tasks, their use in programming education is still limited, particularly for students in non-technical domains. To better understand the potential for chatbots to support progr ...

IATED2022

Surviving but not thriving: Comparing primary, vocational and higher education teachers' experiences during the COVID-19 lockdown

Helena Kovacs, Emilie-Charlotte Monnier, Caroline Pulfrey

In this paper we examine the impacts of the global pandemic in 2020 on different levels of education system, particularly looking at the changes in teaching practice. The health emergency caused closure of schools, and online distance education became a te ...

2021

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

Evaluating the Effects of Introducing Three Gamification Elements in STEM Educational Software for Secondary Schools

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah

Gamification aims to enhance the educational experience by enabling students to have fun with technology. Although research in the field has previously looked into the effectiveness of gamification, reviews of existing studies show that in the context of e ...

Association for Computing Machinery2020

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training in Technology-Enhanced Learning in Europe

Denis Gillet

Technology enhanced learning (TEL) research connects Learning Sciences, Educational Psychology, and Computer Science, in order to investigate interventions based on digital technologies in education and training settings. In this paper, we argue that docto ...

2020

Guest Editorial JLT Special Issue on OFS-26

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

The sixty-two papers in this special issue were presented at the 26th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors (OFS-26). ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

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

Does gender-sensitive teacher training have a place in Engineering Education? Assessing pedagogical training as a step towards gender-inclusive curricula

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Cécile Hardebolle, Ingrid Le Duc

Teaching advisors work to sensitize teachers to use inclusive teaching pedagogy because it facilitates learning to all students and makes teachers aware of how the gender composition of a class and its management can promote or hamper student learning and ...

European Society for Engineering Education2018

Automated human-level diagnosis of dysgraphia using a consumer tablet

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Lukasz Kidzinski, David Cohen

The academic and behavioral progress of children is associated with the timely development of reading and writing skills. Dysgraphia, characterized as a handwriting learning disability, is usually associated with dyslexia, developmental coordination disord ...

Springer2018

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

The Number of Genomic Copies at the 16p11.2 Locus Modulates Language, Verbal Memory, and Inhibition

Nouchine Hadjikhani, Borja Rodriguez Herreros, Loyse Hippolyte

BACKGROUND: Deletions and duplications of the 16p11.2 BP4-BP5 locus are prevalent copy number variations (CNVs), highly associated with autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia. Beyond language and global cognition, neuropsychological assessments of thes ...

Elsevier Science Inc2016

Left neglect dyslexia: Perseveration and reading error types

Roberta Ronchi

Right-brain-damaged patients may show a reading disorder termed neglect dyslexia. Patients with left neglect dyslexia omit letters on the left-hand-side (the beginning, when reading left-to-right) part of the letter string, substitute them with other lette ...

Elsevier2016

Designing Augmented Reality for the Classroom

Pierre Dillenbourg, Sébastien Cuendet, Quentin Bonnard

Augmented reality (AR) has recently received a lot of attention in education. Multiple AR systems for learning have been developed and tested through empirical studies often conducted in lab settings. While lab studies can be insightful, they leave out the ...

Elsevier2013

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

The impact of Improved School Design on the Academic Achievement of Students in the Palestinian Territories : an Empirical Study

Yves Pedrazzini

Report for the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Palestinian Territories, Funded by KfW, Frankfurt, Germany. The work was realized in Association with the Swiss NGO "Colloquia". ...

2009

Requirements Engineering Education in the 21st Century, an Experiential Learning Approach

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

RE use in industry is hampered by a poor understanding of RE practices and their benefits. Teaching RE at the university level is therefore an important endeavor. This education can ideally be provided at the university level as an integrated part of devel ...

IEEE2008

Triboelectrochemical techniques and interpretation methods in tribocorrosion: A comparative evaluation

Stefano Mischler

Tribocorrosion is a material deterioration or transformation resulting from simultaneous action of wear and corrosion. Tribocorrosion is found in many engineering applications but the involved mechanisms are still little understood. The investigation of tr ...

2008

Building the capacity to experiment in schools: a case study of the Institute of Educational Sciences in the U.S. department of Education

Dominique Foray

This article is about building new research capacities to foster a fundamental shift in research methods. It examines in detail the new R&D policy of the US Department of Education, which is designed to dramatically increase the number of experiments condu ...

2007