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Vocational education

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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

Are engineering teachers ready to leverage the power of play to teach transversal skills?

Roland John Tormey, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, 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 ...

2023

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

Design and evaluation of digital tools to expand experience in vocational education

Kevin Gonyop Kim

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 ...

EPFL2022

Educational 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 ...

EPFL2022

Evolutionary Clustering of Apprentices' Self- Regulated Learning Behavior in Learning Journals

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Christian Giang, Paola Mejia Domenzain, 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' ...

2022

How 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 ...

2021

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

Using immersive virtual reality to support designing skills in vocational education

Pierre Dillenbourg, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach, Kevin Gonyop Kim

Immersive virtual reality (IVR) offers possibilities of creating a learner‐centric environment that can provide more presence and engagement for students leading to an enhanced learning experience compared to conventional classroom practices. However, the ...

2020

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

Roland John Tormey, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Helena Kovacs, Lucille Delisle, 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

BloomGraph: Graph-Based Exploration of Bouquet Designs for Florist Apprentices

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Exploring design space is an important process in finding solutions to a design task. In this paper, we present BloomGraph, an online application developed for florist apprentices to explore the space of bouquet designs. BloomGraph provides a graph-based i ...

Springer, Cham2019

BloomGraph: Graph-Based Exploration of Bouquet Designs for Florist Apprentices

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Applying IDC theory to education in the Alps region: A response to Chan et al.’s contribution

Pierre Dillenbourg, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Jauwairia Nasir, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Shuqing Teresa Yeo

In this paper, we present a response to the Interest-Driven Creator (IDC) Theory from a European perspective. Specifically, we raise six questions intended to start a dialogue with respect to IDC Theory’s placement in existing learning theories, its adopti ...

2019

What makes an online learning journal powerful for VET? Distinguishing productive usage patterns and effective learning strategies

Beat Adrian Schwendimann

Background: The current and future workforce is challenged to adapt to changing environments and become lifelong, self-regulated learners. Learning journals can regulate learning processes through scaffolding reflection on rich experiences. However, learni ...

2018

Augmented Reality to Facilitate a Conceptual Understanding of Statics in Vocational Education

Lorenzo Lucignano

At the core of the contribution of this dissertation there is an augmented reality (AR) environment, StaticAR, that supports the process of learning the fundamentals of statics in vocational classrooms, particularly in carpentry ones. Vocational apprentice ...

EPFL2018

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 ‘Erfahrraum’: a pedagogical model for designing educational technologies in dual vocational systems

Pierre Dillenbourg, Beat Adrian Schwendimann

Vocational education taking place in the dual contexts of workplace and school often lacks integration of concrete experiences with theoretical knowledge. The interplay between workplace and school contexts and their often antagonistic priorities call for ...

2015

Mobile and Online Learning Journal: Effects on Apprentices' Reflection in Vocational Education and Training

Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey

While learning journals (LJs) have been shown to support self-regulated learning strategies, reflection and learning outcomes in academic contexts, few studies have investigated their relevance in vocational education. A mobile and online learning journal ...

2014

Tangible Interfaces for Learning : Training Spatial Skills in Vocational Classrooms

Sébastien Cuendet

There have been many claims that Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) can have a positive impact on learning. Alleged benefits include increasing usability, improving engagement and collaboration of students, and providing a better perception of the task, esp ...

EPFL2013

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