ITS Volda 2019

Keynote speakers:

  Geir Ottestad, Policy Officer at European Commission. 
Policy officer in the European Commission, DG Education and Culture. Initiating and coordinating external educational research supporting the DG's policy agenda. Former head of unit, advisor and researcher within the field of pedagogical use of ICT and systematic implementation of ICT at kindergartens, schools and teacher education institutions. Process leader for various development programs. Norwegian National Research Coordinator for IEA ICILS 2013. 
Specialties: Policy adaptation of research results, policy recommendations and research coordination. Quantitative research, process development, policy analysis

 

  Ann-Thérèse Arstorp works as a researcher (PhD) at the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training and as associate professor at Østfold University College. Ann-Therese authored the Framework for Professional Digital Competence and is involved in different national projects for the Norwegian Teacher Education, e.g. creating Future Classroom Labs.

 

  Ian Simons – Senior Lecturer Computer Science at Stranmillis University College, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Ian is an author with Oxford University Press UK and a co-author with the multi-award winning Go Berserk resources. Former Head of Computing at a grammar school in Belfast. Ian founded MCW4U, a platform which encourages skill acquisition in computer coding. The Go Berserk resources are sponsored by International companies such as Allstate, Fujitsu, LibertyIT, CME Group, Capita, SQS and others. The BBC used Go Berserk as their chosen project for the ‘Year of Code’ in 2015. Ian has spoken at SXSW.edu in Texas, USA 2015 and continues to lead on key Computer Science issues on Government, Education and Business agendas in the UK and Ireland.

 

  Caroline Cruaud is an associate professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway, in the unit for digitalization and education (eDU). With a background in foreign language learning and teaching, Caroline Cruaud is researching playful learning and the use of digital tools in education. In her Ph.D. thesis on the topic of gamification of education, she developed a framework based on play theories and the concept of frame, to design and analyse play situations in a classroom context. Her research interests cover among other topics playfulness, foreign language learning and the process of designing tools for learning.

 

  Petra: teacher / researcher at KPZ in the area of STEM-education. Her PhD was on the topic of using a simulation environment in mathematics education (university of Twente). Her current interest is on the discourse in mathematics lessons. 

 

  Marit Huzen is a pre-service teacher in her final year at KP Zwolle in Holland. She has been studying the topic of implementing digital tools and mobile devices in schools and digital literacy. The interest of the thesis enhancing motivation for learning mathematics through using a robot. 

 

 Dr.philos Rune Johan Krumsvik is Professor of Education, Head of Western Norway Graduate School of Research (WNGER II) and Head of the research group Digital Learning Communities (DLC) at University of Bergen. Krumsvik is also Professor II at Volda University College, Honorary Research Fellow at University of Bristol and former Head of the Department of Education, University of Bergen (2010-2017). One of his main research interests is digital competence in school and higher education. 

 

 Wenke M. Rogne is an Associate Professor of Norwegian Didactics in Teacher Education at Volda University College. Rogne worked as a school teacher in secondary school and in Norwegian for foreign students before she entered teacher education in 2007. Rogne has been a lecturer and researcher within Norwegian didactics and educational research, emphasizing on literacy learning; reading comprehension and deeper learning. She has held courses and authored and co-authored scientific articles, book-chapters and books on these topics. 

 

 Siv M. Gamlem is a Professor of Pedagogy in Teacher Education at Volda University College. Gamlem worked as a school teacher in elementary- and secondary school for several years before she entered teacher education in 2005. Since then she has been a lecturer, mentor and researcher within educational research and school development projects. 
Gamlem has authored and co-authored several scientific articles, book-chapters and a number of books on the topic of educational assessment and student learning. 
 

 

 Synnøve Hedemann Amdam, Project manager of DigiGLU – Digital literacy in Teacher Education, digiglu.hivolda.no, at Volda University College. The project involves both students and staff in teacher education and local schools in developing professional digital literacy.  Lecturer and PhD-researcher in Media and Digital literacy, 21st century skills, teacher professionalism and media studies. In her PhD-project Amdam explore teacher practices and teacher understandings of roles, practices and educational goals in technology-rich classrooms.