Latest news for teachers
Aalto ranked 37 in the Financial Times European Business Schools Ranking
The ranking position is a round-up of the earlier FT rankings.
Finnish universities draft common guidelines for remote exams
With the increased need for remote examinations this year, a means has been sought to ensure that students can make steady progress in their studies and have their learning assessed without bias.
Visiting professor David Volkman: 鈥淭he academic environment of the BScBA Program is exceptional.鈥
David Volkman, professor of Investment Science and Portfolio Management at the University of Nebraska Omaha, teaches Principles of Finance course to BScBA students. Volkman has a PhD in Finance, and has received several teaching, service, and research awards.
Guidelines for recording lectures
Aalto University is committed to enhancing students鈥 learning experience in online courses as well. With this in mind, the teacher may record live lectures. What should the teacher and student be aware of when giving or participating in a live lecture? Details are available at opit.aalto.fi.
Aaron鈥檚 study day starts at 2 am 鈥 鈥楽tudying is one of the best things you can do in this pandemic time鈥
While studying remotely from his home in the US, Aaron Geldert has needed to adapt new daily routines. Despite the challenges, he鈥檚 glad that the studies are interactive and productive.
AI predicts which drug combinations kill cancer cells
A machine learning model can help us treat cancer more effectively
Leap for Learning project status up-date in November
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Updated conditions for giving out student information 27 November
The conditions in the consent form for disclosing students鈥 personal data and contact details will be updated.
Bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 students pay healthcare fee for spring 2021 to Kela
The student union fee that students pay for spring term enrolment will no longer cover the cost of the Finnish Student Health Service (FSHS), as of 1 January 2021. The healthcare fee must be paid to Kela by 31 Jan 2021.聽
Towards Oasis symposium reached 200 participants
Ways to define and build holistic well-being in higher education sparked widespread interest outside Aalto University.
Remote teaching and lecture capture enabled facilities at Aalto University campus
The amount of remote teaching and lecture capture enabled facilities have increased when Otakaari 1 lecture halls M2 (M233) and M3 (M234) have their audiovisual facelifts finalized. These additions increase the total number of lecture capture enabled spaces to over 50 throughout Aalto campus.
Jukka Luoma, Teacher of the Year 2020
The Prodeko Guild of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management chose Assistant Professor Jukka Luoma as the Teacher of the Year 2020.
Aalto ENG Teaching Forum 2.11.2020 teachers were encouraged to take a sustainable development into account and include it in teaching
The Teaching Forum 2nd November, 2020 focused on sustainability and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Instructions for Teachers: Captioning Video Lecture
According to the Act on the Provision of Digital Services, from 23 September 2020 onwards, all new videos uploaded to the university website must be accessible. These include all Aalto University event, presentation and lecture videos, which must be captioned in the language of the presentation. Read instructions for teachers.
Satellite laboratory hosted a remote lecture with a 360 camera
Upper secondary school students watched the lecture from an 8K screen. The experiment was carried out in collaboration with telecommunications company Elisa.
Registration open to Towards Oasis: Dialogues in Radical Wellbeing - Creating Belongingness in Higher Education Communities
Already almost 200 attendees from Finnish higher education institutes have registered to the online symposium that takes place on 19 November 2020.
Leap for learning project update: from idea to projects, from planning to deployment
Information about coming changes and their schedules (e.g. related to Sisu) will be published on Leap for learning pages in aalto.fi from November onwards. The projects in Aalto Service Platform are moving towards demos, testing and piloting.
Flow of Studies II to improve course sizes, teaching schedules and periods
The work of the Flow of Studies Task Force II has been a general success. The task force plans to publish a final report of its results on for the purposes of further action and decision-making.
TEE 2020 achieved peer reviews of degree programmes beyond school borders
The Teaching and Education Evaluation (TEE) 2020 has completed its self-evaluation and peer review reports on the degree programmes.
Degree regulation reform: draft of regulations to be discussed
The schools鈥 bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 degree regulations will be replaced by shared degree regulations for all of Aalto University as of 1 August 2021.
