Latest news for teachers
Something new and something old: Critical thinking, empathy and communication skills
Hertta Vuorenmaa and Eero Vaara's insights on central work-life skills.
Aalto Magazine focuses on continuous learning
The just-published Aalto University Magazine 24 examines lifelong, or continuous, learning, which a recent legislative amendment made the fourth mission of Finland’s universities.
Educational changes are made in the School of Business to meet future needs
A student project set a goal of identifying the most important future trends, the needs future business school graduates will have for skills and knowledge, and the best practices for the programme reform.
Key projects showcased at the Priority project fair
The key projects funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture, functioning at Aalto University gathered to introduce and demonstrate their work for the programme leaders, learning support services and the interested audience on the 29th of March in the Makerspace.
Virtuality becoming part of everyday studies
New learning methods will transport students into a world of games, augmented reality and videos.
Sustainable mindset as a competence of future Aalto graduate?
Annukka Jyrämä's insights on sustainable mindset.
A lifelong curriculum
A legislative reform made continuous learning the fourth mission for universities in Finland. Who will draft the lifelong curriculum and what will it lead to?
New Aalto University practices for individual study arrangements
Students have a right to individual study arrangements due to an impairment restricting his/her ability to study or other health condition. The newly launched toolkit site provides help to faculty and students implementing the new Aalto policy for individual study arrangements.
School of Business awarded the Courses of the Year
Selecting the Courses of the Year 2018 started a new tradition, which highlights the high quality and ever developing teaching at the School of Business.
”Space sciences gave perspective and food for thought”
Ellen Heikkilä opiskelee arkkitehtuuria Taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulussa. Ellen teki monialaisen Astronomical View of the World -kurssin.
Give your opinions regarding ARTS' work and study environment! – the survey open until April 5
The work and study environments of Väre will be developed to better meet the current needs based on the results of the survey.
Professor of Practice Jari Melgin was nominated Teacher of the Year by KY
Jari Melgin was applauded for his ability to create an atmosphere of openness and dialogue.
Safari Tech Books Online is now O’Reilly Safari Learning Platform
Through the O’Reilly Safari Learning Platform, the Aalto University students and researchers have access to a wide range of eBooks, videos, audioBooks and self-study material.
“I got an idea of the masters programme, in which I could apply to"
Katariina Korolainen studies second year Information technology at the School of Science. Her studies are quite multidisciplinar but she chose to have UWAS-studies from the School of Arts, Design and Architecture already at the earlty period of her studies.
“I got competitive edge from a minor of another field of study”
Otto Saikkonen studies Applied Physics and Mathematics at the School of Science. He chose to have UWS Studies from the School of Business, because he taught the Funding minor would suite for his Systems Sciences major.
Future-proof teaching: Call for Good and Next Practices
Teaching Lab – the booster of future-proof education – was initially launched at the end of November 2018. After that, a lot of progress has been made! The next step is to create a good practices section to our webpage for internal Aalto resources and best practices supporting future-proof education. We also call for next practice pilot ideas from the Aalto community on integrating work-life capabilities into teaching and learning. We support courses and programs that aim to enhance students’ work-life skills up to 10,000 euro funding.
Almost half of Aalto students replied to AllWell? study well-being questionnaire
Almost half of the students in the target group has replied AllWell? study well-being questionnaire.
MyCourses workspaces from the academic year 2015-2016 to be archived on 1.4.2019
The MyCourses service was taken into use in autumn 2015. Now, the Oodi-based workspaces of the first academic year (1.9.2015-31.8.2016) will be archived during the first week of April 2019.
10 + 1 tricky questions for future-proof teaching
Niina Pitkänen shares insights on future work-life oriented teaching.
School of Arts, Design and Architecture awarded promoters of creative skills
In the Annual Review of the school altogether eleven prizes were awarded.
