Scientific Collaborator Learning - Lausanne, Schweiz - EPFL

EPFL

Geprüftes Unternehmen

Lausanne, Schweiz

vor 2 Wochen

Geschrieben von:

Lena Schneider

beBee Recruiter

Beschreibung

EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, is one of the most dynamic university campuses in Europe and ranks among the top 20 universities worldwide.

The EPFL employs more than 6,500 people supporting the three main missions of the institution:
education, research and innovation.

The EPFL campus offers an exceptional working environment at the heart of a community of more than 17,000 people, including over 12,500 students and 4,000 researchers from more than 120 different countries.

Scientific collaborator Learning / Education science %):

Your mission:

The EPFL Center for Learning Sciences LEARN puts an emphasis on evidence-based evolution of education both for teaching inside EPFL and for education at primary and secondary level.

In order to strengthen this ambition and to implement it in the field of digital education, EPFL is partnering with other higher education institutions as part of the BeLearn hub ).

Your main mission is situated in one such BeLearn project "Monitoring for empowering teachers in the implementation of digital competencies".- We are currently looking for a learning / education scientist to lead the intervention design (in collaboration with teacher trainer / digital education experts from PH Bern), data collection, and study conduct.

The team will be composed of the scientist (working partly in the very attractive BeLearn space next to Bern train station), a developer for the technical implementation of the toolbox, two senior researchers from EPFL Center Learn and two professors from PH Bern.

Next to this main mission, you will be involved as a contributor in other projects of the Center LEARN that need research / evaluation accompaniment. Some of these will allow the use of the Digital Training Companion and create direct synergies with the BeLearn project, others might offer opportunities to broaden the topics studied and methods applied.

Main duties and responsibilities include:

Coconstruct and implement the intervention facing student teachers in collaboration with teacher trainer / digital education experts from PH Bern
Define research plan and conduct research (study design, data collection instruments, analysis, writing up), including work related to ethical approval
Report and present to diverse audiences (PH teacher trainers, preservice teachers, research community), disseminate results and toolbox of the Digital Training Companion
Contribute to fundraising
Contribute to research and evaluation as part of other projects of the Center LEARN

Your profile:

PhD or significant research experience in learning or education sciences, or other domains if topic strongly related to learning/education
Strong and broad competence of empirical research methods (study designs, data collection and related instruments, data analysis)
Experience working on digital education would be an advantage
Experience collaborating with teachers/ didacticians would be an advantage
Self driven and organised, you work well autonomously as well as collaboratively with colleagues
Mastery of English, German and French

We offer:

Excellent working conditions in a top university
Inclusion in a rich network of partner institutions (BeLearn)
Participation in a project designed for impact
Experience to gain in the growing field of EdTech

Start date:

asap

Term of employment:

Fixed-term (CDD)

Duration:

1 year (renewable, the project is expected to run for ca. 2 years)

Remark:

Reference:

Job Nb 3234