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

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

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

Caroline Pulfrey, Helena Kovacs, Emilie-Charlotte Monnier

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

Automated Design: A Journey Across Modelling, Optimization, and Education

Cyril Picard

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 ...

EPFL2021

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

Using Educational Data From Teaching And Learning To Inform Teachers’ Reflective Educational Design In Inquiry-Based STEM Education

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education is recognized as a top priority for school education worldwide and Inquiry-based teaching and learning is identified as one of the most dominant approaches. To effectively engage individual ...

2019

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

Governance of competition and performance in European railways: An analysis of five cases

Matthias Finger

Based on extensive qualitative research, this article analyzes the governance of competition in European railways and relates this to their performance via five case studies covering the Netherlands, France, Germany, Sweden and the UK. Even though some tre ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2014

Experiential learning approach for requirements engineering education

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

The use of requirements engineering (RE) in industry is hampered by a poor understanding of its practices and their benefits. Teaching RE at the university level is therefore an important endeavor. Shortly before students become engineers and enter the wor ...

Springer Verlag2009

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