Future Learning Initiative - FLI
ETH’s Chair of Learning Sciences and the ETH’s Chair of Bioethics have collaborated as part of the Future Learning Initiative. This project aims to improve ethics education at ETH by designing innovative educational activities and technologies. In particular, the project explores the affordances of game and play-based educational experiences in ethics education.
Further, the project will contribute research for ethics pedagogy. To that end, we are establishing an extensive research program to develop and test much-needed design principles for ethics education and the consequent evidence-based creation of an educational ethics game.
Two overarching questions guide the design of this project:
- How are ethics teaching and learning different/comparable to teaching and learning other subjects?
Over the course of this project we will test a variety of educational designs that are well established in other subjects for ethics education courses and activities - How can ethics education in the higher education STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) disciplines be made more impactful?
We are particularly interested in educational designs that help students transfer what they learn in an ethics course to other courses and to their professional practice and research activity after they graduate. In particular, we aim to explore and test the affordances of state of the art educational technologies and gamification elements.
Project Link:
https://www.fli.ethz.ch/ethics-education/
Project Team:
Felix Gille
Joanna Sleigh
Effy Vayena
Project Partner:
D-GESS
Peer-reviewed publications
Gille, F., Nardo, A. (2020). A Case for Transformative Learning in Medical Ethics Education. Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1177/2382120520931059