Final Advisory Board Meeting of the Future Learning Initiative (FLI)
FLI project members provided brief reports and presentations of the various FLI projects.
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A huge thank you to all the speakers and members, and for making brilliant ideas to come alive!
Prof. Kapur was interviewed on external pageAndrew Horsfield'scall_made podcast "The Messy Middle".
external pageEpisode #47 - Productive Failurecall_made
Prof. Kapur talked about failure as a means of learning at external pageTEDxHSGcall_made, University of St. Gallen.
December 4, 2023
Vera Baumgartner successfully defended her dissertation Preparing to Learn Linear Algebra — Problem-Solving before Instruction in University Mathematics
August 30, 2023
Charlotte Müller successfully defended her dissertation Embodied Quantum Chemistry Learning from Haptic Feedback.
August 28, 2023
Nadja Beeler successfully defended her dissertation Visual Learning in Melanoma Detection: Factors Related to Diagnostic Performance and the Efficacy of Educational Interventions.
May 31st, 2023
Samuel Tobler susscessfully defended his disseration Advancing university biology education with narratives.
May 30, 2023
Alex von Bergen successfully defended his disseration How gender identity, math-gender stereotype, math self-concept and math anxiety are related to math achievement in elementary school children
April 3, 2023
Christian Fässler successfully defended his disseration Computer-based Virtual Environment Simulations for Differential Diagnosis in Medical Education.
March 30, 2023
Julia Chatain successfully defended her disseration Embodied Interaction in Virtual Reality for Grounding Mathematics and received the prestigious ETH Medal for her outstanding dissertation.
Seven new ETH Zurich and six new EPFL doctoral students joined the second cohort of the ETH Zurich - EPFL Joint Doctoral Programme in the Learning Sciences (JDPLS), attending the JDPLS Summer School at hotel Murtenhof und Krone, Murten.
November 2023
Dr. Julia Chatain received the prestigious ETH Medal for her outstanding disseration Embodied Interaction in Virtual Reality for Grounding Mathematics
October 2023
Prof. Kapur, received the external pageDandelion Award 2023call_made for championing student entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich.
June 2023 Dr. Samuel Tobler was nominated for the Outstanding Student Paper Award for the paper "Metacognitive calibration: a methodological expansion and empirical application" at the 7th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ISLS 2023).
