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Experts in Teamwork - for village supervisors

Here you can find an overview of work tasks, seminars, and important dates for you as a village supervisor in Experts in Teamwork (EiT).

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What is my responsibility as a village supervisor?

Your responsibility as a village supervisor is to support the students in an EiT village, so that they can develop teamwork skills, and practice communicating and applying their academic expertise.

This requires you to plan and execute the village, in cooperation with the learning assistants, and to ensure that you use EiT’s experience-based teaching method.

The village supervisor's tasks span the autumn semester (preparations) and the spring semester (in the village).

What are my tasks as a village supervisor?

familiarize yourself with the course description
develop a village theme and a web presentation that attracts students from across disciplines (read more about the village theme and see how to create a web presentation below)
participate in EiTs courses and seminars that help develop you as a village supervisor
establish and coordinate cooperation with the industry and pubic sector
familiarize yourself with the attendance rules for students, and take attendance
plan and execute the village in cooperation with the learning assistants
be a discussion partner for the learning assistants in their effort in facilitating the group processes
lead and be present in the village, arrange for and guide the student groups
inform the students about the learning materials
provide feedback on submitted work during the period
support the implementation of the student survey
conduct oral presentations for projects, as well as dialogues about the teamwork
carrying out a course evaluation and writing a course report in KASPER

In sum, the village supervisor's most important task is to support the students in an EiT village, so that they can develop teamwork skills, and practice communicating and applying their academic expertise. This entails planning and carrying out the village in cooperation with the learning assistants and using EiT’s experience-based teaching method.

What is the estimated workload?

The total workload is 240 hours. Village supervisors spend approximately 80 hours on preparation in the autumn, and approximately 160 hours with the village and grading students in spring.

Activities and deadlines for village supervisors autumn 2024 (subject to change)

August

Q&A: Online presentation of the village
Aug 15, 12:00-13:00 (Norwegian) and 14:00-15:00 (English)
Digital workshop for all village supervisors, where you could ask questions and discuss challenges related to the online presentation with persons in the EiT Academic Section.

September

Deadline Sept 1: Web presentation of your village must be submitted to the faculty contact person.

October

Information meeting: What is EiT?
Oct 1, 13:00-14:00 (Norwegian) and 14:15-15:15 (English)
Online meeting for new village supervisors and all learning assistants. Basic information about the course Experts in Teamwork.
Kick-off meeting for Gjøvik and Ålesund.
Oct 1, 14:30-15.30. Invitation by email.
Get-together for LL and LA in Gjøvik og Ålesund and onboarding for the learning assistants.
Online course on learning design and group dynamics
Invitation by email. Date of publication: TBA.
For village supervisors and learning assistants. Content: theory on learning, group dynamics, facilitation, student projects and project development.

November

EiT in practice - obligatory for new village supervisors.
One day during the period Nov 5-7.The English seminar is held on Nov 7.
Digital seminar (09:00-13:30) about the practical implementation of EiT.
The Village 2025 - obligatory for all village supervisors.
One day during the period Nov 12-18 (08:30-16:00). There is an English virtual seminar on Nov 12 and an English physical seminar, for physical villages in Trondheim, on Nov 13.
Meet your learning assistants, discuss and share experiences and with other village supervisors, start planning your village.
Project Design in Practice - voluntarily for all village supervisors
Nov 21 12:00-15:00 (Norwegian) and Nov 22 12:00-15:00 (English). Digital seminar.
In-depth discussions on the topic of EiT student projects and project development, introduction to the ecosystem for student innovation at NTNU, share experiences and ideas with other EiT village supervisors and ask questions to the EiT Academic Section.
Assessment workshop - recommended for all village supervisors
Nov 26, 09:15-11:00 (Norwegian) and 12:15-14:00 (English).
Digital workshop for all village supervisors about what constitutes the content of the process report in EiT and the assessment of the report. The aim is that it will become clearer what this report consists of, how it is created and what the requirements are. This clarification might contribute to the preparation for and conduction of the teaching and grading at the end of the course.

December

Workshop on virtual learning environment in EiT
Dec 10, 14:00-15:30.
Workshop for village supervisors who will conduct their village in whole or in part virtually. Main focus: Digital relation building, how to make students work as a team and share experiences.
Deadline Dec 13: You send an invitation/welcome message in Blackboard to the students in your village.

What is a village theme?

Each EiT village has an overall theme, the village theme. Within this theme, each student group in the village defines an interdisciplinary project they want to pursue. The goal is for each student in the group to apply their expertise and for the project to create societal value. The village supervisor defines the village theme, which then provides a framework for the students’ project work.

The village theme should:

be open and interdisciplinary, appealing to students from different disciplines
relate to current problems and challenges faced by society and/or the industry and public sector
relate to stakeholders in society which students may engage with during the project

What is the online presentation of the village?

Each village is presented on the Experts in Teamwork web page in the autumn semester. This presentation is what helps the students choose their village. The online presentation is consequently one of the most important tools in recruiting students to the village, and it is your responsibility as village supervisor.

August 15, 2024, EiT is organizing an online session: Q&A on the web description of the village. Here you can ask questions and discuss challenges related to the presentation with people from the Academic section for EiT. You have received an email invitation.

How do I proceed?

Download and fill out the template for the online presentation of your village (.docx). Send the finished document to the EiT contact person at your faculty, who ensures that it is published online (see contact details here). The submission deadline for the presentation is September 1.

The presentations are published online October 1, and the students’ deadline for deciding which villages to apply for is November 1.

See the Online presentation of the EiT Village: What, Why and How? (PDF) for guidance on choosing a village title, the use of images, and what you should write in the presentation of the village.

Start date spring 2025

The intensive villages start on Monday January 6, and the semester-based villages start on Wednesday January 8.
See also the lists of important dates for intensive and semester based villages.

Resources for students, village supervisors and learning assistants

You will find digital resources for 2024 in NTNU-BOX.

Important materials for the students

In NTNU BOX you will find important learning materials for the students. We request that village supervisors upload the following content to Blackboard:

Guide for students. This is also available directly on the website for EiT students.
Book of reflections for students as pdf
Guide for and login to online course for students

The University Library publishes a digital bibliography in Blackboard through the tool Leganto.

Teaching materials for village supervisors and learning assistants

This is available for village supervisors and learning assistants in separate folders in NTNU-BOX:

Presentations for use in the village
Materials for exercises for use in the village
Materials from the EiT seminars
A digital version of The EiT book
A digital version of The Book of Reflection

Online course

With the learning assistants, you as the village supervisor will facilitate the students in gaining an increased understanding of, and skills in, interdisciplinary collaboration. This online course introduces key concepts that form the basis of EiT's pedagogical platform. The course includes the following topics:

Student active learning
Student project and project development
Facilitation as a pedagogical method
Group dynamics
Virtual collaboration

Information about the online course is found in the "For students" folder in NTNU-BOX.

Recommended platforms for digital teaching

NTNU has two approved tools for digital teaching: Blackboard Collaborate and Zoom. NTNU has published instructions for Blackboard Collaborate (in Norwegian) and for Zoom.

See preliminary findings on learning and cooperation from the digital villages held in the spring semester of 2020, presented at the Webinar festival November 2025, 2020.
Read the article "Slik taklet studentene digitalt opplegg i EiT" in Universitetsavisa (in Norwegian).

Reference group and course report

The village supervisor is responsible for carrying out a course evaluation and writing a course report in KASPER, NTNU’s quality assurance system. The Academic section for Experts in Teamwork recommends that the course evaluation is done with the help of reference groups. As a contribution to the course report, each village supervisor also receives feedback from the students in the village through selected questions in EiT's survey.

The village supervisor is responsible for establishing a reference group in the village, see: KASPER - Study programme management system. A representative of each student group and village supervisor must attend. Additionally, (one of) the learning assistants can be asked to participate.

For semester-based villages the Academic section for Experts in Teamwork recommends three reference group meetings: one at the start, one midway through and one at the end of the course. For intensive villages two meetings may be sufficient.

The reference group must submit proposals for measures to improve the students' learning outcomes in EiT. The minutes from the reference group meetings form the basis for the course report that is written at the end of the semester.

For more information on creating reference groups and evaluation of courses: Methods for student evaluation of courses.