Samuel Tobler: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2022 |
| Name | Dr. Samuel Tobler |
| Address | D-BIOL Center for Active Learning ETH Zürich, HPM E 41.1 Otto-Stern-Weg 3 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| samuel.tobler@biol.ethz.ch | |
| Department | Humanities, Social and Political Sciences |
| Relationship | Lecturer |
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| 851-0252-12L | The Science of Learning from Failure  Number of participants limited to 60. | 2 credits | 2S | M. Kapur, S. Tobler, E. Ziegler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | We can learn from failure. But, what does “failure” mean? And, what, how, and why do we learn from failure? This course covers research from the cognitive, educational, and learning sciences that addresses the role of failure in human learning. Students will critically examine how failure affects thinking, knowledge, creativity, problem-solving, and motivation. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | Students will: - Critically read and analyze articles on research that addresses failure in learning - Participate in in-class problem-solving activities around research in failure - Discuss and reflect upon topics in both online and face-to-face formats - Engage in activities through the online platform - Complete a final paper on a subtopic related to failure in learning By the end of the course, students should be able to: - Demonstrate a critical understanding of the role that failure plays in learning - Discuss how and why failure can benefit learning - Discuss how and why failure does not facilitate learning - Apply understanding to a related sub-topic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | We learn from our mistakes, or rather, we hope that we do. Another way to say this is that we can learn from failure. But, what does “failure” mean? What, how, and why do we learn from failure? This course covers research from the cognitive, educational, and learning sciences that addresses the role of failure in human learning. Students will critically examine how failure affects development of knowledge, creativity, problem-solving, and general thinking and learning. More specifically, they will have the opportunity to question and evaluate the potential relationships between the facets around failure within individual, interactional, cultural, societal, and global contexts through seminal readings and problem-solving activities. Students from any discipline are welcome to this course to learn more about how failure can be harnessed to improve our knowledge, capabilities, innovations, teamwork, and contribute to the larger global world. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | This seminar is an interactive course, thus attendance and classroom participation are required. Processing of online tasks is a requirement for obtaining credit points. The course is held as 2 separate courses with each a maximum of 30 students: one course in German and one course in English. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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