SALTO - Student active learning in a two campus organization
SALTO
SALTO is a project from the Teaching Excellence - NTNU, which is an integrated and wide-ranging initiative aimed at helping NTNU to achieve its goal to providing education characterized by quality at a high international level.
The initiative consists of a portfolio of development measures, which together are intended to strenghten teaching skills by developing innovative teaching, learning and assessment practices. The aim of the measures is to improve students' learning outcomes.
The research based development and related results from the SALTO Project, are highly relevant for the development and strategies of creating the campus of the future.
The SALTO project is based on a study situation where the students are divided into two campuses, a highly relevant issue after the structural reform in the University sector in Norway. Furthermore, the challenges introduces by the COVID-19, regarding fully online/hybrid learning and teaching, creates the backdrop for a research based development of the future classrooms/learning space and related learning scenarios.
Our aim is to develop effective pedagogy with activity at both campuses at the same time, and with particular emphasis on interaction, resource sharing and communication. We will adopt established strategies for student-active learning and develop them further in a "cross-campus" context:
- Collaborative learning: Project work, problem-based learning and development projects in groups across campus.
- Flipped classroom: Development of digital learning materials and common methods for in-depth study, discussion and application of subject matter across campus.
The project will manage and refine a two-campus learning space for physical-virtual interaction across the web, and allow students and teachers to explore educational, methodological, and technological solutions together.
A new joint master's program in "Music, communication and technology" (MCT) between (Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU and University of Oslo - UiO), constitutes the framework for the project.
We expect to be an open laboratory for "cross-campus" teaching/learning and will regularly share experiences with NTNU-internal and external professional environments.