Digital Education: the EduNum project

© Alain Herzog 2021 EPFL
The digital transition at school
In order to support society’s digital transition, the canton Vaud has prioritized a digital education program extended to the entire school system in its 2017-2022 legislative program.
The program defines key actions for two main axes:
- Strengthening the training of compulsory school teachers in digital education
- The training of students from the first cycle of their schooling
A one-of-a-kind inter-institutional collaboration
In order to carry out this program, the Department of Education, Youth and Culture (DFJC) has called on the Center LEARN, as well as Unil and HEP-Vaud.
This collaboration brings together the key educational institutions of Vaud in the implementation of digital education for all of the more than 12,000 teachers and 130,000 students who are part of the school levels of cycles 1, 2, 3 as well as high-school (Ecole de Maturité) of the canton.
Over the course of the project, EduNum aims a deployment to all 93 schools of the Vaud compulsory school system.
EduNum annual reports:
EduNum in the news:
Nouvelles technologies – Les élèves vaudois s’arment face aux chimères du numérique – (in French) 24 heures (02.02.2022)
La généralisation de l’éducation numérique est lancée dans le canton de Vaud – (in French) RTS info le 12:45 (01.02.2022)
Plus d’un quart des petits vaudois suit actuellement des cours d’éducation numérique – (in French) Radio Chablais (01.02.2022)
Vaud elementary school teachers get training on digital education – EPFL news (27.08.2021)
EPFL provides over 350 local teachers with computer science training – EPFL news (23.08.2021)
Department of Education, Youth and Culture (Vaud):
Digital education for pupils in Vaud canton aged 7-8 years:
Digital Education Vaud: training teachers in Vaud Canton:
Learn more, visit the official website of the Department here.