Booster Workshops

GenAI has and will continue to rapidly and radically influence many different areas of our professional and personal lives. In this Booster we will focus on how GenAI can be purposefully integrated into teaching and learning contexts in ways that support authentic assessment, genuine mastery of necessary competencies, while appreciating AI’s assistive potential.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Revise learning objectives of own courses.
• Determine in which ways GenAI can support teaching and student learning.
• Generate authentic assessments that reveal student competence.

The workshop will be led by Daniel Flück and Karin Brown from UTL at ETH Zurich.

PAKETH will create an opportunity for most teaching staff to take a step back and critically review the courses they teach. Sometimes we need a fresh perspective and an opportunity for "blue skies thinking". In this three hour workshop you and your colleagues will participant in a fast-paced, structured process that results in a complete course outline, including identification of the timing of assessment tasks.

By the end of the workshop you will:

• apply evidence based practice to the course design process
• design an overarching course outline based on your teaching context
• plan when the most important learning activities should take place
• select appropriate assessment tasks that demonstrate desired competence

This workshop requires that you work with others in your team. You will (re)design your course that it prioritises active learning and the development of your students' competencies. Therefore it is mandatory that you sign up in small teams. A minimum of two people are required so that you can build momentum and have a collegial sounding board.

This workshop is facilitated by Karin Brown from UTL (Unit for Teaching and Learning) at ETH Zurich.

Project-based education (PBE) is a popular way to give students agency in their learning experience, train transferable competencies and connect teaching to real-world or practice contexts. Designing and implementing PBE is not rocket science but can be daunting the first time, or when working from an existing class format that needs refreshing. In this Booster, we will explore the key features of PBE, translate those to your teaching context, and work on the practical aspects of its delivery and management.

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Describe the key features of project-based education
• Create a PBE course design that encompasses the key features
• Recommend suitable assessments for the PBE context of your course
• Estimate the resources (personnel, financial, teaching spaces) required to deliver your PBE course

This workshop is ideal for anyone with responsibility for a course (or actively involved in co-delivering a course) and who is especially looking to promote active learning or training of transferable competencies. You are encouraged to sign up as a team.

The workshop will be in English and led by Dr. Emily Elsner from PBLabs, part of UTL at ETH Zürich.

Jupyter notebooks enable you to easily enrich your classes with code-based interactive visualisations and exercises. JupyterLab is a versatile platform where you can create, edit, run code, describe content knowledge, use mathematical language, and visualize information all in the same environment.

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Describe the features and benefits of JupyterLab and Jupyter notebooks.
• Create engaging and well-structured Jupyter notebooks using MyST.
• Set up and discuss the blueprint of your own Jupyter notebook usage scenario (in class), including the learning outcomes, the content structure, the assessment methods, and the feedback mechanisms.

This workshop is ideal for anyone who wants to learn how to use JupyterLab and Jupyter notebooks for teaching and learning purposes. You will also get the opportunity to network with other instructors and learners who share your interest in Jupyter and its purposes

This workshop will be facilitated by Daniel Flück and Dr. Katrin Bentel (UTL).

This booster workshop provides the basics for understanding measures and adjustments to improve digital accessibility. It is aimed at all members of ETHZ who are involved in any way in teaching or in the creation of learning materials such as e-learning content, electronic documents and learning videos, as well as exams. This includes lecturers and the creators of learning content themselves, but also those responsible for the digital learning infrastructure.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Describe what e-​Accessibility is all about and where digital accessibility is crucial in teaching.
• Check your learning materials for accessibility.
• Create accessible learning materials or at least find support for creating accessible content.

The workshop will be led by Anton Bolfing UTL (Unit for Teaching and Learning) from ETH Zurich.

Do you have students who have diverse backgrounds and cultures, or different learning needs and styles? Are you interested in exploring how strategies for inclusive teaching and course design can improve elements of your teaching and learning environment? Would you like to explore your curriculum and course content from the perspective of inclusive teaching?

In this workshop you will

• Be introduced to a range of strategies and voices on inclusive teaching
• Apply these strategies to a specially designed case study
• Exchange ideas with course colleagues on the methods and their application
• Reflect on how these ideas and tools can be used in your own teaching context

This workshop is open to all teaching staff interested in the topic of inclusive teaching.

The workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Anna M. Garry and Dr. Anna Ekert, both from UTL (Unit for Teaching and Learning) at ETH Zürich.

Rising student numbers in some areas of ETH Zurich, are pushing lecturers to reconsider their current teaching strategies and to “scale up” in order to meet the demands of larger groups. One way to do this is to try to make the large crowd "feel small". This can be achieved with strategies such as how they communicate with students and which which methods, how they integrate and train Teaching Assistants to tutor small groups and using technology to automate processes such as feedback and assessment or to create more engagement opportunities. Join workshop to learn more about evidence-based strategies, why they work and which might be most appropriate for your teaching situation. This workshop harnesses their tried and true teaching methods already in place at ETH Zurich.

By the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

• describe a range of strategies for making a large crowd feel small
• select and implement methods for teaching large groups of students
• reflect on the successes and shortcomings of chosen methods and
• report on their effectiveness for student learning

This workshop is suitable for teaching staff at all levels who are anticipating either teaching a large class or a sudden increase in student numbers.

The facilitators are Karin Brown and Dr. Philip Barth from UTL (Unit for Teaching and Learning).

The pressing environmental, social, and economic challenges we face in today's world make sustainability education a crucial topic for all subject areas and study programmes. By integrating sustainability principles into ETH’s curricula, we can empower the next generation to become agents of positive change, driving the transition toward a more sustainable and resilient future.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Select relevant aspects of sustainability or SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) that are connected to your course objectives.
• Decide on the appropriate level of sustainability education integration for your course
• Apply methods to foster sustainability awareness among your students
• Develop strategies to cultivate a crisis mode mindset in your students, enabling them to think critically and act decisively in the face of the climate crisis

This workshop is suitable for ETH lecturers with the authority to shape the courses they teach.

This workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Christian Thurn (DGESS).