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Learning@Aalto - Assessment for Lifelong Learning
Warmly welcome to this Spring's Learning@Aalto event focusing on Assessment for Lifelong Learning! The event is open for all Aalto people and partners who feel enthusiastic about learning and assessment practices. The event will be recorded by pictures and video.
When? Wed 22 May 2019 at 11-16
When? Wed 22 May 2019 at 11-16
When
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Where
Otakaari 5
Registration period:
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Event language(s)
English
Programme
- 11.00-12.00 Lunch (A Grid 2nd floor) & coffee/tea (1st floor lobby)
- 12.00-12.45 Keynotes & Panel Discussion (Jeti)
- Redefining assessment for the future / Johanna Rämö & Jokke Häsä, University of Helsinki
- Jokke Häsä and Johanna Rämö are mathematics education researchers and lecturers from the University of Helsinki. Their shared interests are students’ self-assessment and developing new teaching methods and learning spaces.
- Learning as a lifestyle – how to find your way to become a lifelong learner? / Henna Pursiainen, Dare to Learn
- Henna Pursiainen is the CEO of Dare to Learn, an international festival for lifelong learning. She is finishing her studies in social sciences at the University of Helsinki. Her passion is to find out what is the impact of learning from the individual perspective and to the societal level.
- Redefining assessment for the future / Johanna Rämö & Jokke Häsä, University of Helsinki
- 13.00-14.15 Workshops*
- 14.30-15.00 Lightning Talks (Mordor)
- 15.00-16.00 Networking & Cocktails (1st floor lobby)
Please note that the programme is subject to change. The information on this event page is always up-to-date.
Workshop topics:
- Workshop 1: Assessment in MyCourses: rubrics and peer assessment. (Kekkonen)
- Workshop 2: Discuss with other teachers: How to get rid of final exams? (Little Mordor)
- Workshop 3: How to assess entrepreneurial learning and teaching? HEInnovate (Zombi)
- Workshop 4: Vision for future digital assessment of and for learning. (Mordor)
- Workshop 5: Teaching Hub. (2nd floor lobby)
- Workshop 6: Assessment and student well-being. (Krampus)
Lightning Talks
The idea of the Lightning Talks is to share many experiences about the assessment and lifelong learning to the Aalto community in the form of a quick round of 3-minute talks. The Lightning Talks will take place between 14.30-15.00.
- How to assess if an educational technology solution adds value to our society?
- Which components should we try to understand to assess the social value of education technology?
- How to make sure people learn online?
- How to keep people engaged?
- How to assess qualitative assignments en mass?
- How to integrate peer evaluation into a group work based course?
- How did the students perceive the value of peer assessment?
- What is “Smart svenska”?
- How can it be used as a tool for lifelong learning?
- If we can do computer-based tests, can we design them in better way than traditional paper exams?
- If we can do location-independent tests using participant's own laptop, where should we organise them? (how about test in a coffee house? or at company premises for life-long learners?)
- Can life-long learning be facilitated with MOOC courses that are certified by (location independent) computer-based exam?
- How does ALLP enhance lifelong learning through its setup and assessment practices?
- How is students’ self-efficacy in English improved through the use of an assessment matrix (CEFR)?
- What do students consider as the most important factors for enabling a better understanding of their skills and competences and developing a broad approach to their learning?
- Why did I choose to implement self-assessment?
- What are the first impressions?
- Why does self- and peer-assessment support learning?
- What positive features did students associate with self- and peer-assessment?
- What were the critical issues identified by the students in self- and peer-assessment?
World Economic Forum, 2019-- empowering individuals to learn, unlearn and relearn skills will need to form the basis of a new learning and working ecosystem.
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Learning@Aalto is organized to the Aalto community as a joint effort by the strategic initiatives in the field of learning.
Online learning at Aalto University 2016-2020
Aalto Online Learning improves education through online and blended learning approaches from 2016. In 2022 it moves its operational approach from supporting solo-pilots to research and development of production pipelines for MOOCs, 360 environment and educational games.
Programme Attractiveness
The goal of the Programme Attractiveness joint strategic initiative is to enhance the attractiveness of degree programmes at Aalto University.
Success of Students study well-being project
The goal of the initiative is to enhance the success of students by advancing study support, teaching and learning services and focusing support.
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