Highlights & stories regarding digitalisation
Digital transformation happens everywhere - in teaching, learning, research, creative practices, collaboration, services and at the campus.
Open doors to learning: Adding study options (no credits awarded) to Opin.fi service
We are now looking for academics who are interested in sharing their created content or materials with a wider audience on the Opin.fi service! Explore the training where the basics of Opin.fi are explained. You will also know how to add non-credit-bearing study options to the service.
Learning Services – enabling success: development work update August 2024
Next Opin.fi Basics training as well as a training session on entering offerings 9, September. Aalto account grace period will be shortened to 2 months. Update on Sisu development work.
Autumn 2024 Opin.fi Trainings
We are organizing training sessions related to Opin.fi service in the autumn semester of 2024. The trainings will focus particularly on informal and non-formal offerings such as events and other content. Target group is mainly academics and LES.
Learning Services – enabling success: projects' update June 2024
Give anonymous feedback on Sisu’s accessibility. The master's thesis process management functionality on the service platform is scheduled to be launched in August.
Share information and events from Aalto University for lifewide learners on Opin.fi
Opin.fi and nonformal & informal offerings
Aalto AI Assistant and an extensive AI service guidance has been published
Aalto AI Assistant, our own ChatGPT, is now published for the whole Aalto personnel. Similar service is planned for students as well, in early fall 2024. Also, check out the new extensive guidance pages regarding Aalto's internal AI services, as well as list of AI projects and AI services' roadmap.
Learning Services – enabling success: projects' update May 2024
Validity period of Aalto user ID to be shortened after the end of right to study
Collaboration with Aalto brings significant financial benefits to Neste
As a result of the collaboration, Neste is now using digital tools in its fuel research alongside traditional testing.
Completed: MyCourses maintenance break Wed 12 June, 2024 at 9.00-19.00
MyCourses maintenance break on 12 June 2024 starting at 9.00. During this break service is not in use.
Workshop day for teachers: 360° environments and podcasts
On Tuesday 4.6. a workshop day consisting of 360° environment creation and podcast production provides a way to get to know these media in practice. Feel free to join both workshops or one of them according to your time and interest.
Learning Services – enabling success: projects' update April 2024
Opin.fi first demo videos of the service have been released. The Master's thesis management process in the service platform applications will be launched in autumn 2024.
Opin.fi implementation is progressing, and the first demo videos of the service have been released
The schedule for the launch of Opin.fi has been clarified regarding the offerings to be included in the service. The progress of the launch can also be tracked through the 'logbook' on aalto.fi, where we will update the most important current news about the launch of Opin.fi. Additionally, getting to know the service is now easier, as videos showcasing the learner's and administration's views of the interface have been released.
Vili Lehdonvirta: The digital world isn’t a separate dimension in some virtual cloud
Vili Lehdonvirta has joined Aalto University as a professor at the Department of Computer Science. He also continues to work half-time at the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute.
Master’s thesis management functionality in Student Success Hub to be launched in autumn 2024
The new master’s thesis management functionality centralizes basic thesis data on the Salesforce service platform, enhancing support for the thesis process. It replaces eAge for the approval of Master's thesis topics and both eAge and MyCourses for thesis submission for approval.
Learning Services – enabling success: projects' update March 2024
The new Sisu version 3.0 has been installed 21 March. Participate in Funidata’s surveys on raising grades in Sisu and viewing and managing Sisu’s messages.
Digivisio 2030 transforms the future of learning through opin.fi
Finnish universities have united their efforts in the Digivisio 2030 project to build the future of learning, with its first manifestation being the opin.fi website tailored to the needs of lifewide learners. The service is set to be released first as a beta version in fall 2024 and fully in spring 2025.
Aalto University School of Business joins Digital Education Council
The global alliance has a shared vision to drive sustainable innovation
Aalto University participates in Digivisio 3.0 pilot
The Digivisio project office offered all the 2.0 pilot HEIs the opportunity to continue to the 3.0 pilot, which takes place between Q1/2024-Q1/2025. Aalto is involved in the 2.0 pilot as part of the FITech network university until Q1/2024 and continues independently with its own funding to the 3.0 pilot.
Learning Services – enabling success: Opin.fi project started at Aalto
A national lifewide learning offering platform Opin.fi is being introduced this year.
Digivisio 2030's new e-learning courses now available
The latest e-learning training course provide the tools to plan even higher-quality and more varied learning content, especially for continuous learners. The courses are specifically designed to support the work of teaching and support staff at higher education institutions.
