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ENG-637: Coordinator Supervising Students in Interdisciplinary Projects (projects approved by the MAKE committee)

Summary

This applied course engages teaching assistants in coordinating interdisciplinary projects. This role of coordinating an industry like project will on one hand, inherently develop leadership and transversal skills for the participants, and on the other hand, broaden their teaching portfolio.

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Siara Ruth Isaac

Helena Kovacs

Helena is a social scientist with an appetite for a wide variety of topics related to education. Her current work focuses on exploring changes in teaching methods and approaches, strategies of adaptability, and pedagogical innovations at EPFL. Next to this, Helena works on developing a better understanding of teaching and learning transversal skills, with a particular interest in teaching ethics across the engineering curriculum, and she also works on examining the aspects of project based learning from students' and teachers' perspectives. In her previous work, Helena has done research on characteristics of teacher learning in innovative learning environments in schools across Hungary and Portugal, and she has also worked on studying identity formation through curricular material, such as history and language textbooks, across the Balkan countries. Helena holds a PhD in educational sciences obtained as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and from University of Lisbon, and a MA in educational policy and management from Aarhus University and Deusto University thought the Erasmus Mundus scholarship. She has worked as a consultant for Technopolis Group in UK and prior to that Helena was a trainee with the Directorate -General for Education and Culture at the European Commission.

Julien Delisle

Official source

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/ENG-637

Summary

Lectures

Instructors (3)

Siara Ruth Isaac

Helena Kovacs

Julien Delisle

Official source

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/ENG-637

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