SEFI@work: Compound Problems, Humility and Curiosity – a Plea for Slowing Down Learning Processes

SEFI@work: Compound Problems, Humility and Curiosity – a Plea for Slowing Down Learning Processes | The (un)certainty (dis)comfort series from the SEFI Ethics SIG

17 March 2025, 16:00-17:00 (CET)

Ill-defined problems and associated uncertainties have been often hailed as one of the significant differences between work and education settings. The desire to introduce « real world problems » into educational systems created a flurry of innovations such as problem-based and project-based learning. These innovations created (un-?) intended by-products and affordances such as focusing on acceleration of expertise development and creating job-like performance expectations for students. In this talk you will find out how research on compound problems and humility and curiosity might challenge underlying assumptions of the role of education and the design of learning experiences.

This workshop is for you if:

• Explore by-products of educational design decisions.
• Engage in a conversation on the difference between jobs and education systems.
• Connect with other researchers and teachers interested in support engineering students to constructively engage with uncertainty.

Speaker: Johannes Strobel, Associate Dean, Research & Graduate Studies, Professor, and Executive Director, Hopper-Dean for K-12 Computer Science Education, University of Texas at El Paso, USA.

Target Audience: Engineering Educators, Engineering Education PhD Students, Early-career researchers, senior administrators

The (un)certainty (dis)comfort workshop series is a SEFI SIG Ethics project organised by Siara Isaac (EPFL).