KITE Award 2022 for "Physics Lab Courses in Corona Times"
This year, the ETH Zurich award for particularly innovative teaching projects goes to Andreas Eggenberger and his team at D-PHYS. The winning project "Physics Lab Courses in Corona Times" prevailed against 24 other submissions.
During the pandemic-related lockdown in 2020, Eggenberger, responsible for the Physics Lab, and his colleagues proved brilliantly that a Physics Lab can also be taught remotely. Within days, Dr. Andreas Eggenberger, Dr. Alexander Eichler, Dr. Max Doebeli, Prof. Dr. Adrian Biland, Dr. Martin Kroner, and Dr. Marius Simon developed experiments for BSc students which they could carry out safely at home with simple means. Everyday objects such as cardboard boxes, water bottles, sunglasses and smartphones came into play.
The personal supervision of the students proved particularly challenging and required unconventional ideas and approaches. To overcome this challenge, groups of students were supervised online by assistants during their experiments, and especially developed forms and schedules enabled a frequent and continuous exchange between students, lecturers and the Physics Lab team.
After the lockdown, the most valuables among the newly developed experiments for the "Physics Lab Courses in Corona Times" were integrated into the Physics Lab portfolio.
D-PHYS congratulates Andreas Eggenberger and his project team on their great success!
KITE Award
The Lecturers’ Conference of ETH Zurich (KdL) presents the KITE Award every two years to honour exceptionally innovative teaching projects. The KITE Award 2022 is especially dedicated to teaching projects and initiatives which were developed at ETH during its semesters of remote teaching. This new celebration of innovative teaching grew out of the Learning and Teaching Fair, which focused on projects supported by ETH Zurich’s Innovedum Fund. With this year’s award the KdL wishes to recognise the extraordinary efforts of teaching staff during the enforced remote teaching period and showcase excellent examples of online teaching practice.
Links
- ETH News: KITE Award for physics experiments at home
- ETH Physics Lab: Winner of the KITE Award 2022
- Innovation in Teaching KITE Award
- Physics Lab Courses in Corona Times
- D-PHYS Lecture Experiments / Physics Lab
- Download KITE Award 2022 Booklet (PDF, 2.3 MB)
- Nominated projects KITE Award 2022
- ETH Learning and Teaching Fair
- Innovedum ETH Zurich