Excited Students with Exciting Results

Excited Students with Exciting Results

The best student environment at NTNU.

That’s the Department of Computer Science’s (IDI) ambition. In SFU Excited our mission is to enhance the learning in our study programs. We believe a common path to both these goals is more engaged students. Our experience is an engaged student equals a happy student with good academic results. But how do we achieve engaged, happy students eager to learn? The list of possibilities is close to endless. In this article, we are diving into four of them, The lunch-buddy project, Catch IDI , students involved in active research and the first year projects IDI work day and Excited lunch-workshops

Research on IT education

Pre-Excited, neither IDI at NTNU or the Faculty of Social Sciences at Nord University were strangers to doing research on the quality of their study programs. But there is only so much you can do with limited research-budgets and time.

IT studies are very popular amongst potential students and sought after from potential employers. But this means classes are getting big. “There can easily be 400 students in one auditorium, and the IDI institute alone has 3000 students”, explains Guttorm Sindre, Director of SFU Excited. “Such big classes can easily get impersonal, with little or no contact with the professor, making follow-ups, feedback and progression difficult”, he adds.

When the opportunity to apply for SFU Excited came around in 2015 it was therefore one that could not be missed. An SFU allows for more extensive research on measures that are tried out. It also allows more ambitious measures to be tried out over time. And time is an essential component when we are making systematic changes to the quality of our study programs.

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