Events organised by Online Hybrid Lab in 2024:
Aalto Online Learning - Online Hybrid Lab invites you to discuss how online materials could help with challenges that we repeatedly encounter in teaching at the university. In this midday coffee session we lead the discussion by showcasing some examples of hybrid learning methods and cases from technical fields.
Events organised by Online Hybrid Lab in 2023:
How can you make sure that your virtual environment is accessible for all your users?
Dr. Gottfried Zimmermann, professor of Mobile User Interaction at Stuttgart Media University, will run two workshops for Aalto University members on accessibility in 360° virtual environments.
The webinar focus is the application of Incremental Forming of metals and polymers, including the variants of the process, formability, modelling and applications. We also will discuss online teaching and learning aspects of such processes.
Join the online webinar to learn about the Global DigiEduHack challenge we prepared for you: learn more about our core topic, meet likeminded people and ask questions!
DigiEduHack is an EU initiative that aims to foster grassroots innovation, collaboration and creativity and to drive positive change in digital education. Everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to the future of digital education.
The new book by Miikka J. Lehtonen, Tomi Kauppinen and Laura Sivula shares and discusses a diverse range of inclusive methods for how design engages learners.
360° online learning environments that built in 3DVista might be challenging to access for people with some health conditions or impairments. These guidelines support authors in getting the best from the platform as of today.
The Cloud Reachers podcast tackles future learning with experts from different fields from the perspective of both teachers and learners. Join the conversation and discover how we can transform learning together!
Events we participated in:
Hybrid symposium of Digital Accessibility. For everyone working on the application of the Finnish Act on the Provision of Digital Services in universities.
Participants from the Online Hybrid Lab presented insights into the development of academic games for the FDG Conference in Portugal.
News archive:
Teresa Rizzi is joining us as an intern student and master's thesis worker. Teresa is doing her internship and working on her master thesis about Augmented Reality from a User Experience designer point of view.
An exceptional master thesis work by Jutta Tavaila that investigates the online course engagement and motivation and clarifies the student' perspective on those very timely topics.
Online Hybrid Lab is the place for the full life cycle of designing online learning, new discoveries, progressive research and developing expert views on Aalto University's digital educational strategy.
This Spring 2023 we are happy to have a new member on board: Aayush Kucheria is joining us as a Master's thesis worker. Aayush will explore an artificial intelligence (AI) leveraging Language Models to enhance creative writing experiences.
A practical course for learning the key themes of business law was introduced in Spring 2023 to the wider audience. The Entrepreneurship Law online course has been published as a master’s level course in business law, so its main target group is business law and entrepreneurship students, but all its videos and podcasts are available to everyone interested in the topic. The talk show is available for listening in Spotify and in Apple Podcasts.
Events organised by Online Hybrid Lab in 2022:
This workshop gives you foundational knowledge about key perspectives on games in education and educational games. It provides an introduction to Aalto Online Learning: Online Hybrid Lab’s Game Production Pipeline - a supportive framework for educators looking to explore educational games.
In this kick-off session for the Unite! pedagogical trainings we will discuss and ideate engaging virtual spaces that support collaborative, creative and communicative learning. You will also get a short glimpse of the other trainings coming up in spring 2022.
In this workshop we will take an action-oriented approach on integrating VR / 360 content into your courses! Join us if you would like to hear about pedagogical aspects of 360° content implementation and discuss issues related to the content development.
David Derichs presents the keynote '360-degree video cases'. Read more about event here. The presentation will specifically address how he use technology (360 images / VR) to bring context – an important lever for learner inclusion engagement – to online or hybrid educational settings for efficient and effective learning.
Sofia Sevón and Taija Votkin presents 'Becoming 360° Savvy - a Guide for Teachers'. Read more about event here.
Our colleague and postdoctoral researcher Ylva Grufstedt will present a paper to describe the new Game Production Pipeline (GPP) developed in the Aalto University. The paper describes our effort to assist and guide educators in making educational games within higher education.
The GPP is now being used to develop 3 educational games to be launched within this summer. The paper will be available at the HEAD'22 website after the conference is over.
Taija Votkin and Tomi Kauppinen presents the keynote 'Creating a Production Pipeline for 360 Learning Environments'. Read more about event here.
This is a strategic planning event of lifewide learning at Aalto University.
At the event we could hear is happening in the field of lifewide learning in Aalto and what plans we have for the future. The speakers will present the lifewide learning strategy and goals as well as actions through selected learning cases. Digivisio 2030 programme which involves all Finnish higher education institutions will be presented as well. See the program here.
Online Hybrid Lab is wrapping up the spring season and looking forward to the summer!
We had a fantastic year and would like to thank all of you with whom we had the pleasure to work, collaborate, build concepts, discuss ideas, plan, and develop online courses.