Latest news for teachers
President Ilkka Niemel盲 has verified the Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture education portfolio renewal starting 1 August 2022
President Ilkka Niemel盲 has verified the School鈥檚 proposal for programmes and its plan for study options on 31 May 2021, as part of the whole Aalto University portfolio renewal package.
Aalto-led project on student entrepreneurship comes to a successful close
The YYTO-project, funded by the Ministry of education and culture, found ways to support student entrepreneurship
Future learning will consist of flexible studies and digitally supported study experience
For years, Aalto University has been building a foundation, which will enable even longer digital leaps in the future. Follow a video series about our digitalisation journey.
Aalto ENG: The summerletter for students is available
A Study Affairs Newsletter has been published and sent to students graduating from the School of Engineering by e-mail in week 21.
Meet Your Community event brought together first-year students and alumni to discuss the choice of major subject
鈥楾he best thing about the event was the alumni's stories about their career path and the significance of their major subject and studies to it.鈥
New study support functionality is being developed with agile methods
Pilot experimentation of the functionality together with end users helped to find points of development that could see immediate development.
N盲yt枚s21 fashion show made an impact also online
The main prize winner is Jenny Hyt枚nen, also Sofia Ilmonen and Juha Vehmaanper盲 were awarded.
Aalto Mathematics professor wins Outstanding Teacher of the Year from the Finnish Foundation for Technology Promotion's
This year the Outstanding Teacher of the Year is Fabricio Oliveira, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Operations Research. Aalto alumni Joonas Govenius won the Young Researcher of the Year
Visiting Faculty Barbara Edwards: 鈥楥ultural diversity enriches everyone鈥檚 academic experience.鈥
Barbara Edwards (MAcc, CPA, CA, EdD), retired Senior Lecturer from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC Canada, has a long and successful teaching career. In her home university, Edwards received a TD-Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Award, which is awarded based on colleague and student nominations, and a placement on the SFU Beedie School of Business Teaching Honour Roll. Before she started to teach at SFU in 1993, Edwards worked as a Senior Tax Manager at KPMG.
Teacher, answer the remote teaching survey latest by 15 June
Teacher services conducts a remote teaching survey in spring 2021.
Hybrid way of teaching experiment
LES Teacher Services tested hybrid way of learning in the course where teachers discussed about pedagogically smart and innovative teaching methods.
An operating model for lifewide learning (LWL) is being built
LWL plays an important role in the university's strategy.
AllWell? results in Power BI
The 2021 AllWell? well-being survey was conducted in February among all 2nd-year bachelor鈥檚 degree students and 1st-year master鈥檚 degree students at Aalto University. From this year onwards, results can be found from Power BI!
Leap for Learning projects' update for the summer
Leap for Learning projects (Sisu, Service Platform and LES Process Re-Building) prepare for Sisu master break and the deployment of new service platform features.
Student Dashboard got a new name
Service Platform is introducing a daily dashboard for the students. The name of the service is MyStudies.
Welcome to Future-led Learning podcast!
Future-led Learning podcast strives to develop the learning culture at Aalto University and offers a platform to university educators to reflect their ideas about teaching and learning.
Pre-study on teaching resource management highlighted the need for common tools and methods鈥
An extensive preliminary study regarding the resource planning of university teaching聽was conducted last聽year聽by Learning Services聽(LES).
The Aalto ENG Teaching Forum discussed well-being and resilience
The Teaching Forum of the School of Engineering on 10 May 2021 presented ideas and tips that support well-being. The ideas raised by the themes of the day were also discussed together.
Kirsi Peltonen: It is strange to go to an abandoned house to meet students via Zoom
Senior University Lecturer Kirsi Peltonen was able to give one empowering face-to-face lecture last autumn, and now she is mainly teaching remotely from Otaniemi. She finds interactions based on remote connections to be incredibly challenging.
Best practices for enhancing internationalization through virtual exchange discussed at the Unite! Staff Week
The week-long training focusing on virtual exchange was organized in February 2021 to promote internationalization between the seven universities in the Unite! network.
