Latest news for teachers
Course feedback gives students a voice in the development of courses and programmes
At the School of Business, the student gets 1-2 course points for giving feedback.
Wooden Käpylä is an example of resource-wise wood construction
A new book celebrates the hundred-year-old unique wooden house area in Helsinki and tells the story of the multidimensional area.
Maire Syrjäkari has promoted pedagogical expertise since the early days of Aalto
University pedagogics expert Maire Syrjäkari believes that the environment and the positive and open atmosphere of the School of Engineering enable and support the development of teaching communally.
New strategy for the School of Business
New vision and mission statements and the four strategic initiatives will guide the School’s activities throughout 2021–2024.
New pedagogical course to support sustainability education
Registration for the new Sustainability in teaching course (2-3 ECTS) is open until 17 February.
Flinga in use at Aalto
Flinga, a visual tool for collaborative knowledge building and working, is now in use at Aalto.
Sisu to replace Oodi in 2021
The Oodi student information system will be disabled at the end of July 2021, causing changes to studying, teaching and learning services. This will also affect other services that access Oodi’s data through interfaces.
AllWell? questionnaire opens in February
This year, the questionnaire will be available for the 2nd year bachelor’s and 1st year master’s students from 10 to 24 February.
All Aalto students have access to gender studies
Hilma network offers courses for the students and training for teachers.
Jani Romanoff appointed vice dean at the School of EngineeringÂ
Romanoff is a highly accomplished teacher and developer of teaching.
Welcome, student groups, to a virtual neuroimaging laboratory tour
In the laboratory you can use a remote connection to learn about a lie detector and a thermal camera, for example. We welcome upper secondary school pupils, upper comprehensive school pupils, students from universities of applied sciences, and others.
Celebrating Excellence at the School of Electrical Engineering
Nominate your fellow community members for their accomplishments in 2020!Â
Welcome to Teachers' Dialogue event on January 22nd!
You are warmly welcome to join the first Teachers’ Dialogue of 2021 session on Friday 22 nd January from 10.00 -11.30 am – please book your calendar right now and register to the event. Theme for this event is Assessment and feedback.
Visiting professor Paurav Shukla: “I see the BScBA students transform into confident, hardworking and diligent managers.”
Professor of Marketing, Paurav Shukla is the Head of Digital & Data-Driven Marketing department at the Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, UK. He possesses a wide range of industry and academic experience, and has been delivering corporate training, teaching and consulting assignments for various organizations in the Europe, Asia and North Africa. Shukla has taught students representing more than 60 nationalities.
Mario Di Francesco elected Computer Science teacher of the year 2020
The teacher of the year was announced at the CS department’s online holiday party on Thursday 17 December 2020.
Enforcing diversity in teams pays off — a student story
Making students from different backgrounds work together can make students nervous, but it also makes their teams work better in the long run.
Virtual training laboratory AALTOLAB was awarded as the Teaching Act of the year
The School of Chemical Engineering has traditionally awarded particularly distinguished persons and working groups at the “Dean's glögg” in December. The awards were selected from four categories of good options: education, research, service work and promoting collaboration.
Leap for Learning project status up-date in December
Progress with Sisu personal study plan modelling in Sisu .Leap for Learning steering group decided to reorganise service platform streams.
Aalto ENG: December newsletter is available
The current Study Affairs Newsletter of the School of Engineering has been published and sent to students by e-mail.
Book a session with a digispecialist to continue in spring 2021!
Are you puzzled by how to change your course to an online course? Book your online personal session with a digipedagogical specialist to get help with remote teaching.