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SUMMARY:lunch&LEARN: Carrot or stick? How to bring students back to the cl
 assroom in the MOOC age
DTSTART:20251106T121500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Jürgen Brugger\nIn this talk\, Jürgen Brugger\, Professor of
  Microengineering at EPFL\, will go over the different teaching formats te
 sted in MICRO-331\, a course followed by about 140 third-year Bachelor stu
 dents in Microengineering. The goal of the course is to introduce the basi
 cs of cleanroom-based chip manufacturing. Originally\, the course was buil
 t around classic ex cathedra lectures\, supported by a written script. Th
 e hands-on component came through practical sessions in the CMI cleanroom\
 , where students processed simple wafers.\n\nIn 2017\, Brugger and colleag
 ues developed a MOOC to open up access and show the cleanroom process in m
 ore detail\, including videos filmed inside the facility\, showing both ma
 nual and robotic wafer manipulation. However\, as the MOOC became popular\
 , attendance in the flipped classroom sessions dropped sharply\, partly be
 cause students could access all the material online\, and partly for other
  reasons he will discuss.\n\nTo counter this trend\, in 2024 he launched S
 tudent-Led Tutorials (SLTs): small discussion groups where students take t
 he lead through guided\, graded activities. These were inspired by a model
  from TU/e and adapted to the EPFL framework. The early feedback has been 
 very encouraging\; students appreciate the discussions and the collaborati
 ve format. A formal study on their learning impact is now underway at EPFL
 .\n\nIn a way\, SLTs turned out to be both the stick and the carrot: the s
 tick because participation is graded\, and the carrot because students gen
 uinely enjoy them as lively\, peer-driven learning spaces.\n 
LOCATION:ME A3 31 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ME%20A3%2031 https://epfl.zo
 om.us/meeting/register/2UBoAyrkQyiiCRVhFmDfGw
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