Publications related to Educational neuroscience

Bias at a Second Glance: A Deep Dive into Bias for German Educational Peer-Review Data Modeling

Vinitra Swamy, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Thiemo Wambsganss

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has become increasingly utilized to provide adaptivity in educational applications. However, recent research has highlighted a variety of biases in pre-trained language models. While existing studies investigate bias in di ...

2022

L2D 2021: First International Workshop on Enabling Data-Driven Decisions from Learning on the Web

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Mirko Marras

By offering courses and resources, learning platforms on the Web have been attracting lots of participants, and the interactions with these systems have generated a vast amount of learning-related data. Their collection, processing and analysis have promot ...

Association for Computing Machinery2021

Bringing Computational Thinking to non-STEM Undergraduates through an Integrated Notebook Application

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Adrian Christian Holzer

Computational thinking courses are no longer exclusive to engineering and computer science students in higher education but have become a requirement in other fields, as well as for students in secondary, primary, and even early childhood education. Comput ...

2020

An experiential learning approach to educational development: Responses to teaching architecture through the lenses of reflective practice

Dieter Dietz, Patricia Guaita, Ingrid Le Duc

This paper tells the story of a decade-long relationship between a teaching team (TT) and an educational developer (EDP). They have been using an experiential learning approach to monitor improvements to teaching Architecture to first year students. We exp ...

ETH2020

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

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

A Blueprint for a Blockchain-Based Architecture to Power a Distributed Network of Tamper-Evident Learning Trace Repositories

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah, Andrii Vozniuk

The need to ensure privacy and data protection in educational contexts is driving a shift towards new ways of securing and managing learning records. Although there are platforms available to store educational activity traces outside of a central repositor ...

2018

Virtual Reality as a Vehicle to Empower Motor-Cognitive Neurorehabilitation

Andrea Serino

In this paper, we advocate the combination of four key ingredients that we believe are necessary to design long-lasting effective treatments for neurorehabilitation: (i) motor-cognitive training, (ii) evidence-based neuroscience principles, in particular t ...

Frontiers Media2018

Orchestration Graphs: Enabling Rich Social Pedagogical Scenarios in MOOCs

Pierre Dillenbourg, Louis Pierre Faucon, Stian Haklev, Thanasis Hadzilacos

One of the initial promises of MOOCs was to enable participants from around the world to learn and build knowledge together, however existing MOOC platforms are very limited in their collaborative functionality. Using a recent educational modeling language ...

ACM2017

Towards Novel Researcher Tooling Based on Multimodal Analytics

Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Much of educational research today employs a complex mixture of qualitative and quantitative analyses, both during the exploratory and confirmatory phases. However, researchers are still stuck with tools that were developed mainly for single-perspective re ...

2017

Effectiveness of a Clinically Integrated e-Learning Course in Evidence-Based Medicine for Reproductive Health Training A Randomized Trial

Shawn Koppenhoefer

Context For evidence-based practice to embed culturally in the workplace, teaching of evidence-based medicine(EBM) should be clinically integrated. In low-middle-in come countries (LMICs) there is a scarcity of EBM-trained clinical tutors, lack of protecte ...

Amer Medical Assoc2012

Embodied space in architecture, cognitive neuroscience, and virtual reality

Isabella Maria Pasqualini

Recent findings in cognitive neuroscience enable improved understanding of embodiment and egocentric space in architecture. From a historical perspective the human body has been inferred as a reference in the debate of architectonic proportion. It was sugg ...

EPFL2012

Real-Time Reliable Simulation of Heat Transfer Phenomena

Gianluigi Rozza

In this paper we discuss the application of the certified reduced basis method and the associated software package rbMIT (c) to ``worked problems'' in steady and unsteady conduction. Each worked problem is characterized by an input parameter vector --- mat ...

ASME2009

Assessment of Topography E-Learning with Exomatic

Pierre-Yves Gilliéron, Bertrand Merminod, Hervé Gontran

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) has successfully integrated the Bologna reform process that standardizes the Bachelor and Master programmes across Europe. This reform particularly affects the curriculum offered by the EPFL scho ...

2006