Future-led Learning Working Group

Vice Deans: Anouar Belahcen, Tomas Falk, Ari Koskelainen, Jouni Paltakari, Jani Romanoff, Rasmus Vuori  
LES: Eija Zitting, Esa Salmio, Tomi Kauppinen, Katri Ventus
AYY:n edustajat: Carl-Victor Schauman, Susanne Erlund
Ohjelmat: Antti Karttunen Aalto CHEM, JohannaBragge Aalto BIZ, Tiina Pusa Aalto ARTS, Petri Vuorimaa / Anni Rytkönen Aalto SCI
ITS: Christa Winqvist, Patrik Maltusch

Process owners are summoned to meetings when required by the meeting agenda.

Teaching and learning, technology and future
Goals:

- To outline Aalto-level policies regarding digital solutions and the learning environment.
- To support the preparation and implementation of the digitalisation roadmap for the area of teaching and learning.
- To ensure that the digital solutions and development services used in the area of teaching and learning are in line with the university strategy and the needs of the schools.

Aalto University's purposeful internationalization development has come into conflict with the legislation, as the law requires the possibility of completing degrees in domestic languages. The Ministry of Education and Culture demands measures to correct the matter. In order to remedy the situation, Aalto University's Learning Services has produced language guidelines and instructions for interpreting the guidelines to support schools.

The task of the Future-led learning working group is to outline what kind of learning culture is promoted and what kind of technology is used to support the pedagogy. This meeting dealt with the interpretation of the language guidelines from the student and school perspectives. The technological solutions tested were artificial intelligence-based translation technologies. 

The working group worked on the theme using Sitra's tools: Future Triangle and The Insight and Foresight Zoo. 

Summarizing the main points from the discussions:

• there are a lot of different points of view associated with the resources, which were perceived as "elephants in the room" -> schools need to recognize these and places to discuss them
• as the technology develops further it creates good opportunities for us, but it does not solve everything. The student's experience with technological solutions is important.
• Media literacy in the post-AI era means a new kind of competence: critical literacy of artificial intelligence-produced texts and material

All in all, it was felt to be important to promote multilingual, multicultural and diverse teaching.

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