Aalto University pedagogical training for faculty

The training is for Aalto University faculty, and it is free of charge. We encourage all who are engaged in teaching and are interested in developing their own teaching, to apply to the courses. It is important that you have the motivation and possibility to commit to the training! 

If there are more enroled participants than the courses can accommodate, we prioritise persons appointed on tenure and lecturer tracks and those who have a lot of own teaching responsibilities.

Above, you can find a link to the news about the current semester course selection. Click the link for updated course descriptions, enrolment periods, and register for courses.

• Course offering for autumn term is published in May
• Course offering for spring term is published in November

The core courses are usually taught once in a semester. The selection of thematic courses varies from year to year. 

The enrolment period starts approximately two months before the course starts and closes about 3–4 weeks before courses start. We will send the information on the admission/rejection to the course to all enroled people approximately 2-3 weeks before the course starts.

The aim of pedagogical training and development is to enhance the learning-centered culture and the quality of teaching and learning as well as support the development of teachers’ pedagogical competence.

Learning outcomes

After having completed the core courses (20 ECTS credits), you will be able to

1. Identify main concepts of university pedagogy and factors affecting learning and teaching.
2. Describe and explain your pedagogical approach.
3. Plan, implement, assess and develop teaching considering the alignment.
4. Identify and systematically utilise relevant feedback data and self-reflection in the development of your teaching.
5. Observe and evaluate teaching in different learning environments.

6. Participate in pedagogical dialogue in a multidisciplinary group and share your competence and good practices.

Working methods

• Contact sessions
• Small group work
• Guided teaching practice
• Independent development tasks

• Online learning

Basis of the training

The basis of the training is the participants as experts in their own fields and their interest in teaching development. All the exercises and development tasks are strongly engaged with the participants’ own teaching work. This allows you to develop your teaching within your discipline as well as your scholarship of teaching.

Our teaching groups are multidisciplinary, which allows teachers from different areas to enrich their teaching with different perspectives on teaching and its development. Using participant-activating methods, we are able to build our approach of learning and teaching at Aalto University.

Participants at pedagogical courses can see their completed studies in Sisu. The completion of a pedagogical course can be evidenced with the transcript of records together with the course description. All Sisu users can print their own transcript of records from Sisu, and the course description should be available for download in the course workspace in MyCourses.

After having completed 20 ECTS of Aalto University's pedagogical studies, the participant can request a certificate of the training. Please note, that the courses you have taken must be completed and registered in Sisu when filling out the request.

Request form for certificate of Aalto University pedagogical training (20 cr)
Please note that certificates are signed by the Vice President of Education two times a year:

• To get your certificate in June, please send the request by 31st of May
• To get your certificate in December, please send the request by 30th of November

For further questions, please contact MyTeachingSupport