Future-led Learning 8: Petri Suomala and the art of listening
Vice president Petri Suomala of Aalto University speaks about equity, diversity and inclusion and the art of listening with Riikka Evans. Future-led Learning is now part of the Oasis of Radical Wellbeing, an incubator gathering knowhow about wellbeing from around and outside our community, and spreading and curating information about holistic wellbeing as an essential part of the Aalto everyday life. Contemplative …
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Future-led Learning: Esa Saarinen, part 2
This is the second of two episodes featuring professor emeritus and senior advisor at Aalto University, Esa Saarinen. Future-led Learning is now a part of the Oasis of Radical Wellbeing project at Aalto University. Please see more at radicalwellbeing.aalto.fi.
Future-led Learning 6: Esa Saarinen, part 1
Last summer, philosopher and professor Esa Saarinen retired from Aalto University, after lecturing at Aalto for 19 years. He has been a very popular teacher, and he leaves an impressive legacy. What is his teaching philosophy? Riikka Evans met with the professor, emeritus, at the Aalto University School of Business. This is the first of two episodes with Esa Saarinen. This episode …
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Future-led Learning 5: Kiia Beilinson
One of the concrete actions in Aalto University’s current strategy is focusing on holistic wellbeing. One point of this is understanding diversity and inclusion as essential parts of the wellbeing of our community. What does inclusion in higher education teaching mean in practice? Aalto pedagogical specialist Sara Rönkkönen interviewed freelancer Kiia Beilinson, who teaches at …
Future-led Learning 4: Maija Taka
What is the role of supervision and support in doctoral studies and doctoral students’ learning and wellbeing? Sara Rönkkönen, the pedagogical specialist at Aalto University School of Engineering discusses these teams with Maija Taka. Maija is a postdoc researcher and project manager in the Water and Development Research Group (WDRG) at Aalto School of Engineering. Maija is also innovating …
Future-led Learning 3: Marko Keskinen
The AllWell questionnaire studies the wellbeing of our students on a yearly basis. The results of the questionnaire help us to identify many things, among them good practices in teaching. One of the programmes that has achieved very well is run by Marko Keskinen, Associate Professor at the Department of Built Environment in the School …
Future-led Learning 2: Pekka Mattila
Life-wide learning and constant development of one’s skills are central to working life (in 2020’s). Any university degree is not enough, we have to keep on learning all through our careers, and indeed, through our whole life. Riikka Evans discusses these themes with Dr. Pekka Mattila, the Group Managing Director and Associate Dean of Aalto University …
Future-led Learning Begins, eps 0 of the series
This is the episode 0 of the Future-led Learning podcast series from Aalto University. Hosts Riikka Evans and Sara Rönkkönen and producer Sakari Heiskanen discuss the goals of the series.
Future-led Learning 1: Niina Nurmi
In this episode, Riikka Evans meets professor of practice Niina Nurmi, the director of International Design Business Management (IDBM) program at the department of management studies in Aalto University.