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Author Kalle Kataila in Tip of the week Posted on 27/01/202330/10/2023
Visualise your lectures using lightboard

Visualise your lectures using lightboard

A lightboard is a powerful tool for online teaching as it allows instructors to easily create high-quality video content for their students. The lightboard is essentially a transparent board that is

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Author Veruscka Xavier Filgueira in Tip of the week, Tips and tools Posted on 23/01/2023
MyCourses’ Calendar updates and fixes

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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Author Kalle Kataila in Tip of the week Posted on 16/01/202330/10/2023
Get machine-generated captions within seconds for your videos

Get machine-generated captions within seconds for your videos

Besides improved accessibility for people who are deaf or hard of hearing captions on videos increased engagement and watch time, as people tend to watch videos longer when they have captions

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Author Antti Huittinen in Tip of the week Posted on 09/01/202330/10/2023
Need for a virtual tour or interactive media?

Need for a virtual tour or interactive media?

Aalto University is piloting the easy-to-use ThingLink service for creating virtual tours and interactive media.

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Author Outi Rautakoura in Tip of the week Posted on 12/12/202230/10/2023
Present for you from Oasis

Present for you from Oasis

Everything starts when we stop.

May you have calmness of mind to look at the trees, the stars, the sky and feel the ground.

Or

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Author Kalle Kataila in Tip of the week Posted on 05/12/202230/10/2023
Podcasting for teaching

Podcasting for teaching

”It takes many years to learn how to read and write but many of us listen and speak effortlessly as children. In my view, to ignore audio in learning is

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Author Veruscka Xavier Filgueira in Tip of the week Posted on 28/11/202230/10/2023
More than a course: experience the ONL223 community and approach

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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