Latest news for teachers
Communication and interaction are essential to boost students' academic performance in online courses
Aalto University Summer School taught its entire curriculum online this summer. Staff and faculty now share their take on online learning.
Games Now! – Open lecture series on game development
Games Now! is an open lecture series on the dominant topics and emerging trends in games.
Thank you, teacher, for responding to the survey on remote teaching
The first results of the survey on the collective experiences of remote teaching conducted in the spring of 2020 are now published.
Number of EXAM rooms increased
The capacity of the EXAM rooms will increase in September. Two new rooms will be taken into use so as to enable safe electronic examinations for evermore exam takers. With the introduction of these new rooms, the EXAM capacity rises to 31 EXAM computers which allow about 500 examinations a week, each lasting 2 -3 hours.
Solid Ground tells the story of ceramics
Nathalie Lautenbacher's book intertwines essays with photos of contemporary ceramics in a charming way.
Come and ask about teaching!
Specialist of University Pedagogy has a Zoom reception every Friday at 9–10 am.
Student mobility to get easier – courses and School of Business minors available without application procedures
Aalto students will be able to take studies more easily outside of their own school and field: most courses and School of Business minor subjects will not require an admissions procedure beginning this autumn.
New videos published on the site need to be captioned
All videos published on and after 23 September 2020 must have captions. Read the news for links to further instructions to e.g. teachers. The accessibility of aalto.fi-website is on an excellent level.
Business students have a positive attitude towards sustainable development
According to researchers, awareness of students’ values and attitudes is crucial for the development of teaching.
Aalto ARTS initiates a new Summer School with support from Jane and Aatos Erkkos Foundation
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture wants to create new forms of internationalization with an extended Summer School.
You have still time to enroll to the Aalto University's pedagogical courses in autumn 2020
Aalto University offers pedagogical courses to support pedagogical skills of faculty members. You will find courses' descriptions and enrollment forms by clicking the links below.
Get to know us: Assistant Professor Mari Lundström
Reimain in good spirits after bad results and don't give up!
Instructions for remote exams during the summer period
The recommended approach for implementing a remote exam is making an open-book online exam in the MyCourses environment.
The coronavirus pandemic encouraged hundreds of experienced professionals to study change leadership
The Facilitating Change online course saw as many as 500 registrations, with the majority of participants already within working life
Exam-rooms are closed on July 2020
Exam-rooms are closed on July 2020. Exam-rooms will open on 3rd of August 2020.
McKinsey Finance Teacher of the Year 2020
Finance Assistant Professor Peter Nyberg has been awarded as the McKinsey Finance Teacher of the Year.
Development work continues in August
Leap for Learning will resume its close collaboration on three projects (Sisu, Service Platform and LES Process Re-Building) straightaway after the summer.
Action plan to enabling fluent studying
Harmonising teaching arrangements enables fluent studying across school boundaries and graduation within the target time frame.
MyCourses trainings to start 17.8.
MyCourses- and other trainings to support digital teaching start in the end of August and will be organised online.
How to get companies in the metal industry more employees and more students for the master’s degree programme?
‘The great thing about this cooperation is that everyone wins,’ said Ari Jokilaakso, Professor of metallurgy.