Latest news for teachers
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.
Three new master’s programmes for School of Business
Developing the master’s programmes offered at the School of Business aims at responding better to the needs of society.
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.
President Ilkka Niemelä has verified the Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture education portfolio renewal starting 1 August 2022
President Ilkka Niemelä has verified the School’s 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
‘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.’
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.
Näytös21 fashion show made an impact also online
The main prize winner is Jenny Hytönen, also Sofia Ilmonen and Juha Vehmaanperä 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: ‘Cultural diversity enriches everyone’s academic experience.’
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’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.
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​
An extensive preliminary study regarding the resource planning of university teaching was conducted last year by Learning Services (LES).
