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Supporting students and considering their individual needs
After challenging remote studying period, support is needed.

Give us feedback on Teachers' Weekly newsletter as the pilot period continues
Teachers’ Weekly is a newsletter for Aalto’s teaching staff.
The letter aims at easily approachable, informative and timely content on issues related to teaching and learning.
The letter aims at easily approachable, informative and timely content on issues related to teaching and learning.

FITech publishes two MOOCs under the theme of lifewide learning
New courses help adult learners to start learning alongside work and support in updating personnel's competence.

Validity of the instructions for organising remotely proctored exams extended for the academic year 2021-2022
The instructions for organising a remotely proctored exam were released in spring 2020 when the covid19 pandemic was at its peak. The instructions were actively updated during the academic year 2020-2021 so as to accommodate particular features of remote proctoring and assessment of learning with sufficient detail.
Proficiency in Finland’s languages strengthened in national collaboration
Aalto University is promoting the learning of the national languages of Finland – Finnish and Swedish – as part of a broader programme for internationalisation and its Talent Boost programme.

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.

Meet Your Community event brought together first-year students and alumni to discuss the choice of major subject
‘The 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.’

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

Teacher, answer the remote teaching survey latest by 15 June
Teacher services conducts a remote teaching survey in spring 2021.
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’s degree students and 1st-year master’s 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.

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.

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.

How do we promote collaboration, wellbeing and creativity in a hybrid way of working and studying? Share your ideas and best practices by 23 May
Share your ideas on how we can successfully transition to a hybrid mode of working and studying

Pedagogical training in autumn 2021
Aalto university offers pedagogical courses to support pedagogical skills of faculty members.

Moving forward with Sisu - Webinar for teachers (in Finnish)
In 2021, Aalto University will introduce Sisu into extensive use. The resulting changes will apply to everyone at Aalto. A Sisu webinar for teachers 17.5. 11.00 - 12.30 will discuss the changes and their schedule.
