The Unit for Teaching and Learning - Strategy, Development and Support
Unit for Teaching and Learning (UTL) is a new administrative department created from the merger of Educational Development and Technology (LET) and the Strategic Initiatives (SI) from the Rector’s staff. UTL is committed to promoting sustainable teaching, strategic educational development, supporting faculty members in high-quality and diverse teaching and creating extracurricular programmes for students.
Our Vision
“We are passionately committed to excellent teaching, its strategic orientation and innovative further development”.
Our Mission
«We are a recognised powerhouse for teaching at ETH Zurich.»
PB Labs
PBLabs (Project-Based Labs) is a strategic initiative of the Rectorate. We enable project-based education (PBE) to empower our graduates as they navigate a world of change and tackle the challenges of tomorrow.
Project-based education (PBE) is an educational approach that uses project work to foster subject-specific and transferable competencies, as well as independent learning. Students are given a real-world challenge and split into teams, which may be guided by coaches. Through independent inquiry and research, as well as a variety of inputs (such as lectures and expert visits) teams develop problem statements and solutions that are presented at the end of the course. Under the term «project-based», we recognise that there are many varieties of projects and many methods that can be applied within projects.
Innovation
New forms and concepts of teaching emerge through the high innovative power of many lecturers and the feedback from students. This development is supported by the teaching specialists at the departments and the group «Innovation UTL» and promoted with suitable instruments and expertise. Embedded in a network of experts, we promote, network and accompany teaching innovation projects at ETH from the idea to successful implementation.
Services and projects:
Educational Development
UTL offers a range of didactic continuing education programmes for all persons active in teaching at ETH Zurich. From Student Teaching Assistants (“Hilfsassistierende”) to professors, LET has a course programme tailored to your specific needs.
Services and projects:
- Continuing education in university teaching
- Peer feedback on Teaching
- ETH Teaching and Learning Journal
- Refresh Teaching
Curriculum Development
Curriculum development signifies the creation or revision of degree programmes.
Catalysts for curriculum development projects may, for example, be new economic and social qualification requirements and new technology, but they also include feedback from students and lecturers.
Help with curriculum development is available from the Vice-Rector for Curriculum Development, the Education Legislation team and Unit for Teaching and Learning (UTL).
UTL will assist you through project management, working group leadership, workshop moderation, compiling of degree programme qualification profiles, and degree programme planning tools.
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Media & Methods Lab
We anchor the systematic exploration and innovative application of emerging media and tech in teaching at ETH Zurich. We collaborate with teachers and researchers from ETH to co-develop innovative media solutions for their teaching needs. Whether it’s concept videos, science animations, introduction comics, infographics or podcasts – our aim is to identify the most effective media for each teaching scenario and blend its didactic advantages with engaging and contemporary design. We strongly believe in the power of a multidisciplinary co-design approach for educational media at ETH Zurich: co-designing audiovisual media implies an interdisciplinary collaboration between experts from the fields of science, teaching, and media. It relies on the willingness of all participants to venture into other, foreign knowledge clusters.
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STEM Talent Promotion
The joint initiative of ETH Zurich and UBS Switzerland AG aims to promote young STEM talent in Switzerland.
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Student Project House
The freedom to explore, create, test and build your next idea.
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Computational Competencies
Computerisation becomes increasingly ubiquitous in all subject areas. Computational Competencies aims at strengthening both, subject-specific computational methods and technologies as well as the use of computational and data-based modelling in all study programmes at ETH.
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ETH Talent and Impact of Education Initiatives
ETH Talent and Impact of Education Initiatives
- ETH Talent aims to make the fostering of transferable competencies visible and integrated into curricular and extra-curricular offers at ETH Zurich.
- Impact of Education aims to assess the impact of ETH’s educational activities on students and graduates and, consequently, on society, the economy, and the environment over time to ensure that high-quality and relevant education continues to be offered.
