Latest news for teachers
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
Personal study plan in SIsu is a tool that helps students in planning and guides them during their studies.
Updated conditions for giving out student information 27 November
The conditions in the consent form for disclosing students’ personal data and contact details will be updated.
Bachelor’s and master’s 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.Â
Towards Oasis symposium reached 200 participants
Ways to define and build holistic well-being in higher education sparked widespread interest outside 911±¬ÁÏÍø.
Remote teaching and lecture capture enabled facilities at 911±¬ÁÏÍø 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 911±¬ÁÏÍø 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’ bachelor’s and master’s degree regulations will be replaced by shared degree regulations for all of 911±¬ÁÏÍø as of 1 August 2021.
Planning Officer Elli Hämäläinen and 911±¬ÁÏÍø received honorary mention for promotion of dual careers for athletes
The honorary mention was awarded by the Finnish Olympic Committee's Sports Academy Programme and the URA Foundation.
There is a long tradition of teaching retailing at the School of Business
The next Better Business – Better Society seminar will discuss how the retail sector is being reformed and where it is headed.
New aalto.fi hub to help teachers - please give us feedback
The aim is to make teaching-related services easier to find. Help us develop the hub by giving feedback.
Artificial intelligence provides students more individualized teaching
New digital tools enhance learning and improve the predictability of studies.
Two new Exam studios taken in use on 20th of October
Two new exam studios in Otakaari 1 M-wing , 3rd floor is now in use. OK1M321 with 8 exam workstations and OK1M327 with 9 exam workstations will increase the exam capacity to approx. 900 two hour exams/week.
