Altissia
HES-SO Master offers free access to Altissia for HES-SO Master students — an e-learning platform offering language courses. HES-SO Master provides licenses to learn or improve in French, German, and English.
English Courses
Boost your English skills!
- Free 90-minute online courses on Mondays and Tuesdays from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
- Teams webinars that are easy to fit into your schedule
- Varied learning activities: grammar, vocabulary, discussions, and comprehension
- Two levels available: B1 and B2, designed to strengthen your academic and professional communication skills
- Certificate of completion awarded upon regular participation and a short presentation (5 minutes)
Courses description:
E-tandem
The language tandem is an ideal solution for learning a language and practicing it flexibly. The national e-Tandem electronic platform allows you to quickly find a learning partner. It brings together a large community from nine universities (HES-SO, BFH, UNIL, UNINE, UNIBE, EPFL, HEP VS, HEP BEJUNE, PH Bern).
Discover the essentials of artificial intelligence and learn how to use it responsibly in your studies and professional practice.
Key content – 8 thematic modules:
- Types of AI, functionalities, and applications
- Machine learning and neural networks
- Risks, limitations, and ethical, societal, and environmental challenges
- Best practices for selecting AI tools
- Fundamentals of prompt engineering
- Ethics and academic integrity
Format:
- Online modules
- Approximately 8 hours, self-paced
- Certificate of completion awarded upon successful completion
HES-SO Master offers 5 online courses to help you acquire efficient study methods. These courses are offered from 12:30 to 13:30 on Monday or from 12:30 to 13:30 on Fridays.
The proposed topics are as follows:
- Course 1: Time management, organization and planning, listening and note-taking
- Course 2: Group work and conflict management
- Course 3: Concentration and study reading
- Course 4: Report writing and oral defense
- Course 5: Exam preparation and revision
FlashLearns
The Digital Skills Center at HES-SO has created short online courses for students. This initiative aims to better understand the themes and challenges related to "teaching in the digital age."
A first set of FlashLearns is available on the numerique.hes-so.ch platform. These provide clear and engaging access to topics such as:
- The role of students in the digital age,
- Proctoring,
- Conspiracy theories,
- Social media addiction, And many others...
Each FlashLearn offers short video resources and a quiz. Participants receive a certificate confirming their successful completion of the micro-learning course.
The Innokick Master's program gives you access, upon registration and subject to availability, to the Career Differentiation Module courses, delivered primarily online.
To register to these extracurricular courses contact innokick(at)hes-so.ch