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What is CLEER?

CLearinghouse of Engineering Education Resources (CLEER) is a curated database of high-quality engineering education resources. It is designed to help you find relevant literature quickly and confidently.

CLEER is primarily designed for the engineering education community, especially: early-career researchers pedagogical advisors engineering educators

25400+
resources curated by the CLEER LLM curation model
3800+
resources accepted into the CLEER database
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sources of resources, including journals and conferences

How to use CLEER?

  1. 1. Enter your question in natural language
  2. 2. Inspect curated results, including title, authors, journal, and curation notes
  3. 3. Refine results using filters (metadata, keywords, similarity threshold).
  4. 4. You’re done! You now have a selection of relevant and curated high-quality resources.

Why trust CLEER?

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Expert-defined curation

Resources are curated using publicly available transparent criteria developed by experts in engineering education. Each resource is accepted, accepted with notes, or rejected. Only resources that have been accepted (or accepted with notes) are visible to users.

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Ethical use of GenAI

Generative AI is used only to support one-time curation and semantic search using locally-hosted models.

No content is generated or modified, and the data handling complies with both Swiss and European data protection standards.

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Diverse resource collection

Resources come from European and international journals and conferences, covering a wide range of topics and methodological approaches.

The database includes both research and practice papers in engineering education.