News about lifewide learning
Renewed wellbeing in teaching site to support wellbeing of the community
Wellbeing in teaching site was created spring 2022 to support the wellbeing of the community. Now, it has been renewed to give more concrete ideas how to improve the wellbeing in teaching. The relaunch of the site is today October 5th, on World Teachers day.
Laura Sivula appointed Business Area Director for Lifewide Learning
In her new role, Sivula works as a Business Area Director at both Aalto University and Aalto EE, developing the lifewide learning portfolio.
Applications to FITech next fall’s courses has started
University studies for all Finnish residents free of charge.
Call for proposal 2023 / Lifelong Learning / EIT Raw Materials - KAVA10
Lifelong Learning proposals must be demand-driven, demonstrate a clear industrial need.
DRAFT Proposal submission: Tuesday, 31 May 2022 at 13:00 CET
DRAFT Proposal submission: Tuesday, 31 May 2022 at 13:00 CET
‘Finland and Aalto have given me a whole new view on digital business’
International students experienced the Finnish spring and deepened their knowledge of digital business at the Aalto University Summer School’s Digital Business course in March.
Application period for FITech summer courses is open
Upgrade your knowledge on nearly 80 university courses free of charge.
Summer School alum story: “The Scandinavian way of teaching and learning appeals to me – it’s all about collective well-being”
Aalto University Summer School alumna and Global Brand Communications Lead at adidas Margo Camus combined her passion for sustainability and fashion and created the career she always wanted.
How to lead and educate for the future?
Aalto's capacity building project experiments with methods, which may help us become more capable of implementing systemic changes
Aalto University chosen as a pilot university for the Digivision 2030 project
Aalto University joined the pilot of continuous and flexible learning, which is Digivision's first implementation.
Learning for the future: systemic solutions require new ways of learning and collaborating
Aalto offers its staff a chance to experiment with transformative learning method, that can initiate changes in mindsets and remove invisible barriers to creativity
Tom Lindholm appointed Head of Lifewide Learning at Aalto University and Managing Director of Aalto University Executive Education Ltd
He will start in his new position on 2 January 2022.
Why is human interaction and lifewide learning so important in the changing working landscape?
To keep up with the fast-changing working landscape we need to constantly develop ourselves and learn new things.
Teacher, do you recognize the possibilities of lifewide learning in teaching planning?
This year, teachers are planning curriculum work as part of identifying lifewide learning (LWL) offerings. The task has raised questions, so here are some things to promote work.
Everyday choices: As an expert of lifewide learning, what skill did you learn most recently, Laura Sivula?
The Head of Aalto's Summer School and an expert of life-wide learning is constantly trying to learn new things.
‘I wanted to reorient my career towards sustainability’
Beatriz Ramírez shared her story of starting a new career in Finland as part of the Finland Works open online course.
FITech Network University gained extra time for free ICT courses
The university courses open to all in the field of ICT will be continued until the end of 2023.
Aalto University Executive Education’s link ʵ University tightens – the role of lifewide learning strengthens
Pekka Mattila will leave his position as Aalto EE's Group Managing Director on 31 December, while continuing as Professor of Practice at the School of Business
FITech offers courses from Aalto and eight other universities to study free of charge
A wide selection of courses focusing on the ICT sector, energy storages, 5G technology and other fields of technology.
FITech publishes two MOOCs under the theme of lifewide learning
New courses help adult learners to start learning alongside work and support in updating personnel's competence.
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.
