The administrative department Educational Development and Technology (LET), as part of the rectorate of ETH Zurich, provides faculty development, services, and consulting in support of the institute's teaching mission. It fosters innovation in higher education through exploration of digital technologies and media.

You will work in the context of a project on computational competencies in teaching and learning funded by swissuniversities. The goal is to strengthen computational competencies across all disciplines at ETH and to solidify computational skills as a third pillar in the foundation of education next to mathematics and physics. We are involved in curricular revisions, work with teachers to establish a competence catalogue and support the embedding of computational skills in subject teaching. To facilitate including computational components in teaching and learning, we also provide a JupyterHub at LET.

You will be engaged in all aspects of the project, including but not limited to the embedding of computational competencies in subject courses. Thereby, one focus is the JupyterHub we provide. Tasks you will be involved in are the introduction of new users (teachers) to Jupyter, support in the development of JupyterNotebooks for teaching and learning, networking with teachers and facilitating networking between them, collecting feedback from students and teachers, possibly paper writing, and providing an initial contact point for teachers. You will work with teachers across all disciplines and departments at ETH.

You have an interest in fostering computational skills in education and a background in programming in Python and/or R, ideally, you have experience with JupyterNotebooks. You are willing to work with Moodle, which we use in combination with our JupyterHub. Basic skills in Git version control might be helpful, but not necessarily required.

You also have very good communication skills, and you can work independently and be self-motivated in an emerging and fast-moving field. You know how to work detail-oriented while not losing sight of the big picture.

Work times and locations are flexible, but you will not work in isolation. For starters, you will work with higher education and industry partners in Switzerland and Germany, but the goal is to expand this network.

Funded Internship – Computational Competencies Initiative & the LET JupyterHub

40%-60%, Zurich, fixed-term

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