Patrick Jermann

EPFL AVP-E CEDE
CE 0 94.1 (Centre Est)
Station 1
1015 Lausanne

Current Work

  • DRIL; Innovation Fund for digital Resources for Instruction and Learning
  • NOTO: Jupyter Notebooks for education
  • STAGE: STEM teaching in the age of generative AI
  • EPFLGraph: Institutional Analytics
  • Openlearnity: the Swiss platform to host Massive Open Online Courses
After studies in Geneva (TECFA) and Pittsburgh (LRDC) I joined EPFL in 2003 to coordinate eLearning projects and conduct research in the field of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). Former Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies and former Member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (iJCSCL).

Curriculum vitae

After studies in Geneva (TECFA) and Pittsburgh (LRDC) I joined EPFL in 2003 to coordinate eLearning projects and conduct research in the field of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). Former Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies and former Member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (iJCSCL).

Publications

Conscientious Behaviour, Flexibility and Learning in Massive Open On-Line Courses

A. LoyaA. GopalI. ShuklaP. JermannR. Tormey

2015. World Conference on Educational Sciences, Malta, Febuary 2014. p. 519-525. DOI : 10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.04.686.

MOOC Video Interaction Patterns: What Do They Tell Us?

N. LiL. KidzinskiP. JermannP. Dillenbourg

2015. 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, Toledo, Spain, 15-18, 2015.

Looking AT versus Looking THROUGH: A Dual Eye-tracking study in MOOC Context

K. SharmaD. CaballeroH. VermaP. JermannP. Dillenbourg

2015. Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 7-11, 2015. p. 260-267.

Displaying Teacher's Gaze in a MOOC: Effects on Students' Video Navigation Patterns

K. SharmaP. JermannP. Dillenbourg

2015. 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, Toledo, Spain, September 15-17, 2015. p. 325–338. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-24258-3_24.

How Do In-video Interactions Reflect Perceived Video Difficulty?

N. LiL. KidzinskiP. JermannP. Dillenbourg

2015. 3rd European MOOCs Stakeholders Summit, Mons, Belgium, May 18-20, 2015. p. 112-121.

Your click decides your fate: Inferring Information Processing and Attrition Behavior from MOOC Video Clickstream Interactions

T. SinhaP. JermannN. LiP. Dillenbourg

2014 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Workshop on Modeling Large Scale Social Interaction in Massively Open Online Courses, Doha, Qatar, October 25–29, 2014.

“With-me-ness”: A gaze-measure for students’ attention in MOOCs

K. SharmaP. JermannP. Dillenbourg

2014. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE LEARNING SCIENCES, Boulder, Colorado, USA, June 23-27, 2014. p. 1017-1022.

Effects of sharing text selections on gaze recurrence and interaction quality in a pair programming task

P. JermannM.-A. Nüssli

2012. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Seattle, February 11-15, 2012. p. 1125–1134. DOI : 10.1145/2145204.2145371.

From mirroring to guiding: A review of the state of art technology for supporting collaborative learning

P. JermannA. SollerM. Mühlenbrock

2001. Euro-CSCL, Maastricht, Mar. 22-24, 2001. p. 324-331.

Teaching & PhD

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Guillaume Zufferey, Marc-Antoine Nüssli, Lenh Hung Son Do, Ali Galip Bayrak, Kshitij Sharma

Courses

Digital education

CS-411

This course addresses the relationship between specific technological features and the learners' cognitive processes. It also covers the methods and results of empirical studies: do student actually learn due to technologies? In fall 2025, P. Dillenbourg will co-teach this class for the last time.