ETH Competence Center for Teaching and Learning (EducETH)

At the intersection of university and high school

The ETH Competence Center for Teaching and Learning (EducETH) is engaged at the intersection

of university and high school. It aims to make a contribution to the scientifically founded optimization of school learning and teaching and thus also to improve the transition from secondary school to university.

On the one hand, EducETH is based academically on the sciences that have traditionally been part of the ETH Zurich curriculum, such as biology, chemistry, information technology, mathematics, and physics. On the other hand, the projects supported by EducETH are also informed by the results of empirical research on teaching and learning.

EducETH brings together three centers of learning:

• The Ausbildungs- und Beratungszentrum für Informatikunterricht (training and guidance center for IT instruction)
• The external page Life Science Learning Center, operated jointly with the University of Zurich
• The MINT Learning Center for schools, which focuses on classroom instruction in the natural sciences.

D-GESS participates with the following professorship:

• Research on Learning and Instruction
  Prof. Dr. Elsbeth Stern