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MyCourses’ Calendar updates and fixes
The MyCourses’ Calendar displays not only information about the activities on your MyCourses’ pages, such as assignment deadlines, but it also shows all course events as described on Sisu. Responding to
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More than a course: experience the ONL223 community and approach
Source: ONL website
Aalto University has participated for several years in the Open Networked Learning course sending in teachers and staff members as attendees as well as facilitators and
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As easy as chalk on a blackboard – Using the Blackboard 2.0 for drawing, writing and presenting in a lecture hall
Blackboard 2.0 is a digital tool developed at Aalto’s Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis that simulates a real life blackboard with extra features that are useful
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Using MyCourses to book appointments
Do you…
- need to book 1-on-1 appointments with students for supervision, feedback, support, etc?
- need book slots for students groups?
- need to offer timeslots
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Reflections on emotional intelligence in online teaching and learning
This post is inspired by a UNITE workshop on Emotional Intelligence in Remote Teaching and Learning held in April 2022 and facilitated by Isabel Gonçalves from the
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New tools for interactions on Zoom – New Whiteboard and more options in polls
Switching between several different apps in a session can be tiresome and confusing for both teachers and students. Good news is that apps like Zoom are already taking steps forward to
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Not what it seems – counterintuitive ways to learn online better
In this article, we invite you to challenge some common assumptions about digital learning. Some of these ideas might already sound familiar, but as you go through them try to think
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